The Turning Pointe

by Vanessa L. Torres

Book Overview

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. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio. But Rosa would do anything for one hour in the dance studio upstairs where Prince, the Purple...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593426134
• ISBN13: 9780593426135
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12