Someday dancer
(SHES Materials)

"First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 as Dreamer Ballerina."

"Casey Quinn has got more grace in her pinkie toe than all those prissy ballet-school girls put together, even though you'd never guess it from the looks of her too-long legs and dirty high-top sneakers. It's 1959, and freckle-faced Casey lives in the red-dust countryside of South Carolina. She's a poor girl: Her family can't afford ballet lessons. But Casey's dream is to dance in New York City. And if anyone tries to stand in her way, she's going to pirouette and jetâe right over them. Casey's got the grit and Casey's got the grace: Is that enough to make it in Manhattan someday? Or might the Big Apple have something even better in mind? Casey's ballerina dream is about to take a thoroughly, thrillingly modern twist." -- dust jacket.