Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story by Michaela DePrince, Elaine DePrince

Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story

Michaela DePrince, Elaine DePrince

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional inspiring medium-paced
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Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, the author witnesses atrocities that no child ever should. Her father is killed by rebels and her mother dies of famine. Sent to an orphanage, she is mistreated and she sees the brutal murder of her favourite t...

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