Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story

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Understandably, Mia and Michaela were extremely traumatised as well as having to learn a whole new way of life.

J'ai offert ce livre à ma meilleure amie Hollandaise pour son anniversaire et je me le suis offert à moi aussi.This is reiterated in Ch 31, and yet in Ch 32 (only 3-4 pages later) she talks about how "hard" acting was, and that she couldn't hide how she felt on a given day. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Her dream ignites when a magazine that has a beautiful ballerina on its cover flies into her on a dusty path in Sierra Leone. I don’t dwell on the story in this review because I don’t wish to steal any of the joy of your own discoveries.

DePrince has an amazing story to tell, and without her seemingly selfless mother and co-author, Elaine DePrince, she wouldn't be here to tell it. Most of the brutality occurs at the start of the memoir as Michaela's early years in Sierra Leone are covered.In 1999, after raising five sons, she took a leave of absence from law school to adopt a child from war-torn West Africa. The straightforward way in which both Michaela and her mother, Elaine tackle racism and other issues is novel, and shows that when strengthened by family, even the most cutting of remarks can't stop someone great from reaching their full potential. This philosophy is also repeated in Michaela's struggle to become a professional ballerina, due to the racial prejudices held not only in the world of dance, but also those in modern day America.