Billy Elliot
Subtitle: a novel
By: Melvin Burgess
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leicester [England]
Language: und
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781407428116
Subjects: Ballet dancers; Juvenile fiction
Description: Billy's mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved in a bitter miners' fight that has split the local community. Billy's father wants his son to learn boxing, like he did and his father before him. But Billy is fascinated by the grace and magic of ballet and is determined to dance his way to a different future.
Notes: "Based on a motion picture screenplay writtten by Lee Hall."