Another Way to Dance

Another Way to Dance by Southgate, Martha. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780440219682.

Fourteen-year-old Vicki Harriss dream has come true. She has been accepted into the summer program at New York Citys prestigious School of American Ballet. It will be hard work and highly competitive, but Vicki feels ready. She is totally committed to dancing. Vicki isnt prepared to be one of only two African-American students in the program. Nor is she expecting the racism she finds within the school. And Michael, from Harlem, takes Vicki completely by surprise. He shakes up her dream world--where Baryshnikov is her idol, her parents never really got divorced, and every pirouette is perfect--and shows her that the real world is bigger than a stage.