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Another Way to Dance
Another Way to Dance (Delacorte, 1996) is the story of 14-year-old Vicki Harris, an aspiring ballerina who has just been accepted into the summer program at New York City’s prestigious School of American Ballet. It will be hard work and highly competitive, but Vicki feels ready. She is totally committed to dancing. But Vicki isn’t 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, a new friend from Harlem, takes Vicki completely by surprise. He shakes up her dream world and shows her that real life is bigger than a stage.
Praise for Another Way to Dance
- An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
- Winner of the Coretta Scott King Genesis Prize for Best First Novel
- “The story reads smoothly, the characters are well-drawn, and the readers feel satisfaction…[Southgate] has written a fine first novel dealing with the challenge of trying to break into a profession that does not make room for African-Americans.”
—School Library Journal
- “A compelling portrait of a young woman trying to turn dreams into reality. The book’s detailed evocation of its world and its refusal to engage in easy sentimental triumph gives it an authenticity that readers will appreciate."
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Book
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