![]() ![]() This is a heart-breaking, inspiring autobiography by a teenager who shows us that, beyond everything, there is always hope for a better future. Today, Michaela DePrince is an international ballet star, dancing for The Dutch National Ballet at the age of nineteen. ![]() The world of ballet is a racist one, and Michaela has to fight for a place amongst the ballet elite, hearing the words ‘America’s not ready for a black girl ballerina.’Īnd yet. ![]() Unfortunately, tragedy can find its way to Michaela in America, too, and her past can feel like it’s haunting her. Together with her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, she wrote the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina. But life in the States isn’t without difficulties. Then Michaela and her best friend are adopted by an American couple, and Michaela begins to take dance lessons. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela was mistreated and saw the brutal murder of her favourite teacher. Her father was killed by rebels and her mother died of famine. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should. Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. ![]()
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