| Record Number |
839137 |
| ISBN |
9780571329731 (paperback) |
| Author |
DePrince, Michaela author. |
| Title |
Ballerina dreams : a true story / by Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince ; pictures by Ella Okstad. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Faber & Faber, 2017. |
| ©2014 |
| Pagination etc. |
57 pages : colour illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Contents note |
First published in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf in 2014. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Target audience note |
6-9 years old. |
| Subject - Name |
DePrince, Michaela -- Juvenile literature |
| Subject |
Sierra Leonean Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature |
| Ballerinas -- Biography -- Juvenile literature |
| Autobiographies. |
| Creative nonfiction. |
| Added Author |
DePrince, Elaine author. |
| Okstad, Ella K. illustrator. |
| Shelf Location |
JB DEPR |
