num_pages: 208
description: Fourteen-year-old Vicki Harris's dream has come true. She has been accepted into the summer program at New York City's prestigious School of American Ballet. It will be hard work and highly competitive, but Vicki feels ready. She is totally committed to dancing.Vicki isn't prepared to be one of only two African-American students in the program. Nor is she expecting the racism she finds within the school. And Michael, from Harlem, takes Vicki completely by surprise. He shakes up her dream world--where Baryshnikov is her idol, her parents never really got divorced, and every pirouette is perfect--and shows her that the real world is bigger than a stage.
language: English
title: Another Way to Dance
titlecomplete: Another Way to Dance
genres: Young Adult, Childrens, African American, Teen, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 93
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: John Steptoe New Talent Award
category: Author
publisher: Laurel Leaf