Hidden on the High Wire by Kathy Kacer

Hidden on the High Wire by Kathy Kacer

Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler's Nazis has put them all in grave danger.

When the circus is forced to shut down and Irene's father is taken away, Irene and her mother must go into hiding with another circus. Every day is a frightening new kind of balancing act, caught between the desire to perform and the need to hide--even in plain sight.

Kathy Kacer's writing has earned her numerous prizes, including the Silver Birch, Red Maple, Hackmatack, and the American Jewish Library Association Award. The Secret of Gabi's Dresser, the first book in Second Story Publications' Holocaust Memory Series, was published in 1999. She's written four more books in the series since then. Kacer, a former psychologist who worked with problematic teenagers, now writes for young readers about the Holocaust and speaks about it across the country. Kacer and her family live in Toronto.