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A bold and emotionally gripping novel about a teenage Latinx girl finding freedom through dance and breaking expectations in 1980s Minnesota. <BR><BR>When sixteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez pirouettes, she is poetry in pointe shoes. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio. But Rosa would do anything for one hour in the dance studio upstairs where Prince, the Purple One himself, is in the house.<BR><BR>After her father announces their upcoming auditions for a concert with Prince, Rosa is more determined than ever to succeed. Then Nikki--the cross-dressing, funky boy who works in the dance shop--leaps into her life. Weighed down by family expectations, Rosa is at a crossroads, desperate to escape so she can show everyone what she can do when freed of her pointe shoes. Now is her chance to break away from a life in tulle, grooving to that unmistakable Minneapolis sound reverberating through every bone in her body.

H | W | D | g
211 mm | 145 mm | 36 mm | 0.522 kg

Publication year
2022

Age rating
0

Edition
Hardcover

Publisher
Random House Childrens Books

ISBN-10
0593426142

ISBN-13
9780593426142

Author
Vanessa L. Torres

Language
Englisch

Page Count
432

Topics
Kinder/Jugendliche: Familiengeschichten /Geschichten übers Zuhause, Kinder/Jugendliche: Persönliche und soziale Themen: Familien und Familienmitglieder, Kinder/Jugendliche: Allgemeine, moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik, Kinder/Jugendliche: Allgemeine Interessen: Tanz, Ballett

Keywords
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes), HC/Kinder-/Jugendromane u. -erzählungen, Kinder/Jugendliche: Familiengeschichten /Geschichten übers Zuhause, Kinder/Jugendliche: Persönliche und soziale Themen: Familien und Familienmitglieder, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Hispanic & Latino, Kinder/Jugendliche: Allgemeine, moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik, Kinder/Jugendliche: Allgemeine Interessen: Tanz, Ballett

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