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CBC Showcase: Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, and Fantasy:
Genre Fiction for Young People
A young girl, a circus performer, Picasso, and a revolutionary are drawn together in an intrigue in Belle Epoch Paris.
When her mother dies, Brigitte is sent to live in Paris where she helps her aunt and uncle in their cafe. Her new life seems strange and interesting. When Brigitte befriends Paco, the young circus performer from the Cirque Medrano who poses for the temperamental Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, she is drawn into a web of international intrigue. Elain Scott vividly recreates the drama and excitement that charged the intellectual world of avant-garde artists and writers in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century.
Ages 11-14
ISBN: 978-1-57091-712-7
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
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