A dance like starlight
Subtitle: one ballerina's dream
By: by Kristy Dempsey ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Contributors: Cooper, Floyd, illustrator
Publisher: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780399252846
Subjects: Discrimination; Juvenile fiction; History; African Americans; Ballet dancing; Fiction
Description: A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.

A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and she is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.
Notes: Accelerated Reader LG 4.4 0.5 0.5 163048