After the orphanage was bombed, DePrince and the other orphans fled to a refugee camp. DePrince was sold to an orphanage, where she was starved and abused and where she witnessed the brutal murder of her pregnant teacher, a memory that would forever haunt her. Her struggles started early: it was discovered that she had vitiligo, a medical condition that results in blotchy, irregular patches of skin, and her biological parents both died when she was only three.
In this moving memoir, DePrince, who in 1995 was born in war-torn Sierra Leone but went on to become an acclaimed professional ballerina, tells her story. In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet’s most exciting rising stars. She has appeared in the ballet documentary First Position, as well as on Dancing with the Stars, Good Morning America, and Nightline. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is now the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life.Īt the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. OL19985551W Page_number_confidence 94.07 Pages 282 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 References Kirkus Review, August 2014 Pub Weekly, August 2014 Republisher_date 20200906085743 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 631 Scandate 20200901132810 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780385755115 Tts_version 4.The extraordinary memoir of Michaela DePrince, a young dancer who escaped war-torn Sierra Leone for the rarefied heights of American ballet. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:12:28 Boxid IA1924209 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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