The turning
By: Gloria Whelan.
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780786290352
Subjects: Kirov Ballet Company -- Fiction; Large type books; Defectors -- Fiction; Ballet dancing -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Large type books; Soviet Union -- History -- Attempted coup, 1991 -- Juvenile fiction; Soviet Union -- History -- Attempted coup, 1991 -- Fiction; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.