The Turning Pointe - Hardcover

Name: The Turning Pointe - Hardcover
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9780593426135
Price: 18.99 USD
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by Vanessa L. Torres

$18.99

Book Overview

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.

ISBN	9780593426135
Author	Vanessa L. Torres
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Genre	Young adult, Society & culture, Family, and Arts
Format	Hardcover
Published	February 2022
Language	ENG- English
Pages	432
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Teens & young adults and Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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Vanessa L. Torres is a Mexican American author, an adventure seeker, and a mom to a flashlight-under-the-covers-reader. She is a thirty-year veteran of the fire service and is equally proud to call her herself an author. Her debut young adult novel, The Turning Pointe, released in 2022. When she's not writing, she balances her time between anything outdoors, and spending time with her family close to home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.