Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4)
by Michaela Deprince Elaine Deprince
Paperback
Random House Books For Young Readers
Published October 2014
English
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About This Book
“At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, and quickly decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true.”–Amazon.com. This autobiography introduces Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her life in war-torn Sierra Leone, was adopted by an American…