Picture book 16 / The man who walked between the towers

Title	The man who walked between the towers
Author	Mordicai Gerstein
Illustrator	Mordicai Gerstein
Awards	Caldecott Winner
Publisher	Roaring Book Press
ISBN	0-7613-2868-8
Readability Score (GLE = Grade Level Equivalent)	Lexile	480L
	DRA	28
	GLE	2.5
	Guided Reading	L
Genre /      Sub-Genre	Picture Book / Autobiography and Biography
Theme	Story of Phillippe Petit walking a tight rope in NY
Primary Character	Phillippe Petit
Secondary Characters
Classroom Use	I would use this book to talk about the city life, the circus and actors.
Summary	This book tells about a man who seen the twin towers in New York and wanted to walk on a rope between them. He had to find a way to do it and not get in trouble. He ended up walking on the rope between the buildings and getting arrested but the judge was not hard on him. At the end of the book there is a page about the towers that used to be in New York.