A Dance Like Starlight : : one Ballerina's Dream
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780399252846
0399252843
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Cooper, Floyd.
SUBJECTS
Collins, Janet -- Fiction.
Ballet dancing -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Discrimination -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951- -- Fiction.