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A dance like starlight : one ballerina's dream

Kristy Dempsey (Author), Floyd Cooper (Illustrator), Jill Santopolo (Editor), Amy Wu (Book designer), Semadar Megged (Book designer), Philomel Books (Publisher)
A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina

Print Book, English, 2014
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), New York, NY, 2014