A dance like starlight : one ballerina's dream

Title
A dance like starlight : one ballerina's dream

Author
Dempsey, Kristy, author.

ISBN
9780399252846

Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Reading Level
AD 990 L Lexile

Personal Subject
Collins, Janet, 1917-2003-Fiction.

Subject Term
Ballet dancing -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.
 
Discrimination -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951- -- Fiction.

Added Author
Cooper, Floyd

Summary
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.


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Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)EASY DEMChildren's Picture Books
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