Someday Dancer - Sarah Rubin电子书mobi+epub
Product Details
Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 and up
Lexile Measure: 730L
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Chicken House
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0545393787
ISBN-13: 978-0545393782
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Product Details
Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 and up
Lexile Measure: 730L (What's this?)
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Chicken House; 1 edition (August 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0545393787
ISBN-13: 978-0545393782
A ballerina tale with a thoroughly modern twist!
Casey Quinn has got more grace in her pinkie toe than all those prissy ballet-school girls put together, even if you'd never guess it from the looks of her too-long legs and dirty high-top sneakers. It's 1959, and freckle-faced Casey lives in the red-dust countryside of South Carolina. She's a farm girl: Her family can't afford ballet lessons. But Casey's dream is to dance in New York City. And if anyone tries to stand in her way, she's going to pirouette and jeté right over them!
Casey's got the grit, and Casey's got the grace: Is that enough to make it in Manhattan someday? Or might the Big Apple have something even better in mind? When she meets a visionary choreographer she calls "Miss Martha," Casey's ballerina dream takes a thoroughly, thrillingly modern twist!
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Gr 6-9-In this novel set in the ballet and modern dance world of 1959, hardworking, penniless Casey Quinn journeys from South Carolina to New York City to realize her dreams. The teen uses a wonderfully active voice in tune with her physical nature in her present-tense narrative, e.g., "My stomach quivers like a raw egg." Casey's stubborn can-do personality is nicely enhanced by interactions with multidimensional side characters, such as her selfless good cook of a grandma and a snobby, rich peer. Casey faces grief, loss, and many other tribulations, but she overcomes these obstacles, has some really good luck, ingratiates herself with the right people, and ultimately earns a role in a performance with the Martha Graham Company. At first glance the historical details appear suitably contextualized, although in romanticizing the era the author omits historical accuracy on a great many fronts: e.g., the famously curt George Balanchine is depicted as kind and the School of American Ballet inhabits a grandiose building rather than the plain building it actually occupied in 1959. Nonetheless, many collections will welcome this spunky '50s heroine and her introduction to the world of modern dance.-Rhona Campbell, Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
When Casey hears of an open ballet audition in New York City, the poor South Carolina girl with no formal dance training decides to battle for a spot. She knows in her heart that she is a natural dancer, born for the stage. How she winds up not a ballerina but a student of real-life modern dance doyenne Martha Graham forms the crux of this pleasant story set in 1959. The novel is at its strongest when describing Graham’s powerful personality and the intense work needed to succeed as a dancer. Casey is a sympathetic character who says of her passion, “The way I am dancing on the inside. The way I am flying. It is like no dance in the world. It is better.” Despite doses of melodrama—Casey’s rival is a mean girl from her hometown, and her beloved grandmother dies before she can see Casey on stage—this is a good recommendation for fans of reality-TV dancing competitions, as well as aficionados of stories about striving to succeed in the arts. Grades 6-9. --Karen Cruze
About the Author
SARAH RUBIN grew up on an island off the coast of Maine, spending most of her childhood dressing up, reading, and wandering in the pine forests. Sarah earned her BA in Creative Writing and History from Skidmore College, and after teaching dance and drama for a year, she left New England for Old England, moving overseas to Winchester, where she now lives. This is her debut novel.
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