
Turning Pointe
by Vanessa L. Torres
Title:
Turning Pointe
Author:
Vanessa L. Torres
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
320 pages
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
ISBN-13:
9780593426135
EAN:
9780593426135
Publication Date:
22/02/2022
Classifications:
Teenage Fiction
Weight (g):
664
Dimensions (mm):
150 x 226 x 39
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
A bold and emotionally gripping novel about a teenage Latinx girl finding freedom through dance and breaking expectations in 1980s Minnesota. When sixteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez pirouettes, she is poetry in pointe shoes. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio. But Rosa would do anything for one hour in the dance studio upstairs where Prince, the Purple One himself, is in the house.After her father announces their upcoming auditions for a concert with Prince, Rosa is more determined than ever to succeed. Then Nikki--the cross-dressing, funky boy who works in the dance shop--leaps into her life. Weighed down by family expectations, Rosa is at a crossroads, desperate to escape so she can show everyone what she can do when freed of her pointe shoes. Now is her chance to break away from a life in tulle, grooving to that unmistakable Minneapolis sound reverberating through every bone in her body.










