Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she is abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it is at the orphanage that Michaela finds a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would helps change the course of her life. At the age of four, Michaela is adopted by an American family, who encourage her love of dancing and enroll her in classes. She goes on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is now the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. 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.
- ISBN: 9780385755115
- Authors: DePrince, Elaine; DePrince, Michaela
- Published: 2014 , Knopf
- Themes: Adoption, Ballet, Courage, Dance, Dreams, memoir, Orphans
- Descriptors: Africa, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 252