A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream Juvenile Nonfiction Poetry Biography & Autobiography - Literary Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing "Contagiously upbeat

"Contagiously upbeat

Rukhsana finds allies along the way and

the way he cares for his plants

Izzy even works up the courage to try out for an all-boys sports team

A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream Juvenile Nonfiction Poetry Biography & Autobiography - Literary Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing "Contagiously upbeatA story of little ballerinas with big dreams. Little ballerinas have big dreams. Dreams of pirouettes and grande jetes, dreams of attending the best ballet schools and of dancing starring roles on stage. But in Harlem in the 1950s, dreams dont always come truethey take a lot of work and a lot of hope. And sometimes hope is hard to come by. But the first African American prima ballerina, Janet Collins, did make her dreams come true. And those dreams