Taking flight
Subtitle: from war orphan to star ballerina
By: Michaela DePrince
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780385755115; 9780385755122; 9780385755139
Subjects: Ballet dancers; Orphans; Africans; Juvenile literature; Biography; Women
Description: The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States.

Born in war-torn Sierra Leone and adopted at age four by an American family who fostered her love of dancing, Michaela became the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. The coauthor is Elaine DePrince.
Notes: Kirkus Review, August 2014

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