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Hope in a Ballet Shoe
Author: Michaela & Elaine DePrince
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ISBN: 9780571314461
Format: Paperback
Published: March 2015
Published By: Faber & Faber
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Published By: Faber & Faber
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Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, Michaela DePrince witnesses atrocities no child ever should. She loses her parents and, at the age of just four, is sent to an orphanage where she is labelled the 'least favourite child' because of a skin condition she was born with.But there is hope: the Marmattan wind blows a magazine through the orphanage gates. Michaela picks it up t see a photograph of a young woman dancing. One day, she thinks, I want to be this happy.
And then the first good news arrives - an American family wants to adopt her...
Today Michaela is an international ballet star, dancing for the Dutch National Ballet from the age of nineteen.
This is her true story.