The Turning Pointe Torres Vanessa L.
The Turning Pointe Torres Vanessa L. 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…
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The Turning Pointe Torres Vanessa L.
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. 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. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio.
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. Then Nikki--the cross-dressing, funky boy who works in the dance shop--leaps into her life. Now is her chance to break away