The turning
By: Gloria Whelan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780060755935; 9780060755942
Subjects: Kirov Ballet Company -- Fiction.; Defectors -- Fiction.; Ballet dancing -- Fiction.; Conduct of life -- Fiction.; 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.