Dancing through fire /
Kathryn Lasky.
- New York : Scholastic c2005.
- 172 p. ; 20 cm.
- Portraits .
- Portraits (New York, N.Y.) .
Wilson's Children, October 2010 School Library Journal, November 2005 Booklist, December 2005 Horn Book, April 2006 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), January 2006 Teacher Librarian, April 2007
A story inspired by Edgar Degas's famous 1878 painting "L'�Etoile," or "Dancer on the Stage," in which Sylvie Bertrand, an ambitious young pupil at the Paris Opera Ballet, struggles to keep herself and her dreams alive when the Franco-Prussian War breaks out.
5.6. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.
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Ballet dancers--Fiction. Art appreciation--Fiction. Historical fiction.