to dance, By Siena Cherson Siegel

I have never really enjoyed or though I would enjoy reading this type of novel.  Actually this is the first I have every read a book written in this style.  I see this style too busy, therefore a turn-off.  I am wrong again, imagine that!!!   I really enjoyed the book.  Once I started I could not stop.  I enjoyed the format and the many pictures.  I like the way the author tells the story of how the dream of a little girl came true.  I could sense the determination, and the spirt this little girl possessed.  I think the only thing left unanswered was ‘what was the reason for the divorce of the parents?’  Did the mother focus so much on the ballerina daughter that the father had been excluded?   I will not require this book to be read by my students as I have so many of the others I have read as a result of this class.  This is an AR Test book, I took the test and now I have .5 points.  How small this score is compared to the insight of the novel.

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