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Elaine DePrince

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    Hope in a Ballet Shoe
    Taking Flight
    • 2016

      Taking Flight

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.3(212)Add rating

      Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet's most exciting rising stars

      Taking Flight
    • 2015

      From war-torn Sierra Leone to the US, to dancing for the Dutch National Ballet, this is a heartwrenching, life-affirming true story of a young girl orphaned by war and saved by ballet.

      Hope in a Ballet Shoe