Taking Flight From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Name: Taking Flight From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
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ISBN: 9780385755122

ISBN-10: 0385755120

ISBN-13: 9780385755122

Edition: 2014

Authors: Michaela DePrince, Elaine DePrince

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The extraordinary memoir of Michaela DePrince, a young dancer who escaped war-torn Sierra Leone for the rarefied heights of American ballet. Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 10/14/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.65" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Michaela DePrince was born in Sierra Leone and adopted by an American family. She graduated from the American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis school in New York, and is a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet. She travels between Amsterdam and New York City, where she lives with her family.