Vanessa L Torres

Gebundenes Buch

The Turning Pointe

Beschreibung

"In 1980s Minnesota, when auditions for a concert with Prince are announced, 16-year-old Rosa Dominguez, the daughter of a tyrant ballet master, is desperate to escape her pointe shoes and show everyone what she can do."--

Autor

Vanessa L. Torres is a Latinx writer who has worked as a flight medic and currently works as a firefighter paramedic. She's a founding member of the B.R.A.V.E. Foundation, a volunteer organization that works with firefighting and medical personnel in developing countries and is the recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow award from Rotary International for her work in Guatemala. Vanessa is also the co-coordinator of The Olympia Writers Group, a critique group with one-hundred-plus members, and an active member of SCBWI and The Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Transplanted from Minnesota, she is married to another firefighter paramedic and they live in the Pacific Northwest with their nine-year-old daughter. This is her debut novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Children's Books
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 145mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780593426142
• ISBN-10: 0593426142
• Artikelnr.: 62232620