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Ballerina dreams : a true story

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One windy day, a magazine blew down the road. I reached out and caught it. A pretty picture of a woman was on the front cover of the magazine.

She wore a short pink dress that stuck out around her in a circle.

She looked very happy. At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life.

She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America.

Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, and decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true.

She has been dancing ever since, and after a spell as a principal dancer in New York, now dances for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. Beautifully and gently illustrated by Ella Okstad, Ballerina Dreams is the younger-reader edition of Michaela DePrince's highly moving memoir, Hope in a Ballet Shoe.

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Faber & Faber
057132973X / 9780571329731
Paperback / softback
06/04/2017
United Kingdom
English
57 pages : illustrations (colour)
18 cm
Quiz No: 232458, Points 0.50, Book Level 4.10,
Early Years - Key Stage 1 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.