A dance like starlight : one ballerina's dream / by Kristy Dempsey ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.

A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Main Author: Dempsey, Kristy (Author)
Other Authors: Cooper, Floyd (Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Series:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:
Collins, Janet, > 1917-2003 > Juvenile fiction.
Ballet dancing > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Discrimination > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1951- > Juvenile fiction.
Ballet dancing > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Discrimination > Fiction.
Collins, Janet > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1951- > Fiction.
Genre:
Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Description
Summary:
A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.
Call Number:Dempsey
FC
Audience:
Elementary Grade.
1100 Lexile.
AD1100L Lexile
ISBN:9780399252846
0399252843
Reading Program:
Accelerated Reader 4.4.
Accelerated Reader LG 4.4 0.5 0.5 163048