Ballet for Drina (Drina Books) - Softcover

Jean Estoril

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750012609 ISBN 13: 9780750012607

Publisher: Hodder Wayland, 1994

Synopsis

A young girl struggles to get dancing lessons despite her grandmother's strong disapproval.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This first installment of the Drina series, a collection of books first published in England in 1957, expresses all the wistfulness and determination of a devoted balletomane as she struggles for her place at the barre and in the world of dance. From her earliest years, orphan Drina has loved movement and dance, but her grandmother-guardian has always discouraged her. When Drina enters a new school, and meets a girl named Jenny, her yearnings are more intense than ever. Jenny, who dislikes ballet, studies at the Selswick School, and only by lobbying hard does Drina, too, start lessons. By the time the story ends, readers learn the source of Drina's grandmother's hesitation, melodramatic and satisfying for all its incredibility. Drina's old-fashioned willfulness and her desire to dance will be joyfully embraced by ballet fans. Ages 8-12.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Wayland
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0750012609
• ISBN 13: 9780750012607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176