Another Way to Dance

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Summary: How it Feels
Review: Another Way to Dance takes place in a young black dancer's life, Vicki, who goes to dance with the American Ballet Theater in New York City. In New York Vicki learns from friends why she should be proud of who she is and how to forgive her parents for getting a divorce.
I really liked this book because it had to do with dancing. I am a dancer myself and could easily relate to many of the things that happened. I also like it because it showed many modern-day ways that people judge others. It also taught me that blacks are the same as everyone else and need to be treated as equals. Another Way to Dance was an interesting and fun way to learn an important lesson on judging people and how it makes them feel. If you are a dancer or interested in dancing, Another Way to Dance is the book for you.

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Summary: A standing ovation and several curtin calls wrapped into one
Review: I loved this book from the moment I started reading from page 1. I could not put it down!! I related with Vicki so much having been through some of the same situations myself. This book really captures the African American experience in a predominately white dance school. I was so glad that Vicki could hold her head up high in the end. I felt myself cheering for her and wanting her to find the true meaning of dance. All African American young dancers should read this book. I highly recommend this book. Martha Southgate truly touched me with this one. I cannot wait to read what comes next!

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Summary: There's a First Time for Everthing
Review: In the beginning of the story this girl named Vicki gets accepted to this school for young kids who love to dance, it is something like a Julliard for young kids. It was called School of American Ballet. Vicki has never really experienced racism before in her life. When she goes to SAB (School of American Ballet) she starts to experience it. She is one of only two African Americans at this school. She then meets this boy named Michel. HE shows her all of New York. The only thing is that he is white and Vicki is Black. His mother doesn't approve of there friendship. Towards the end Vicki really starts to learn that she has to live with the fact that she is black, and that she will have racism the rest of her life! She then feels happier then she did because she knows that no matter what she does she can't change who she is inside.
I really did like this book because it really showed me how much racism hurts African Americans. I knew that it hurt them really bad, but the way it affects them is how it helped me. I'm not racist but some people are; I think if they read this book then they would see how much there words have an affect on some people's lives! I loved this book so much that I would recommend it to anybody who wanted to see things through someone else's eyes.

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Summary: There's a First Time for Everthing
Review: In this Compelling story of African American influence you become captured in the misunderstandings and mishaps of Viki's summer. As she struggles to realize why her parents recenlty split up, why she doesn't just fit in with the rest of the ballet students, and why her plain to see talent is overlooked by so many Viki rides an enourmous emotional rollercoaster, jerking her in every which way. When she meets Michael, he helps her step off the coaster and put her feet on the ground as he opens her eyes to things she had never taken the time to see. Once you pick up this book you wont be able to put it down I guarantee. Viki finds many other ways to dance in the spotlight without ballet.

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Summary: I finished this book in one day!
Review: This book was beautiful. I really like to dance and there was something about Vicki I could relate to. I know how sometimes its like being isolated when youre the only African-American or the only other African American in your ballet group. I liked the romance in the book, I was kind of suprised at how Micheal and Vicki had an intense relationship where they could just talk like regular teens. I would definately recommend this book. For it to be Martha Southgate's debut novel, it was written like she had been writing novels for years.