POINTE
by COLBERT, Brandy
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0399160345
- ISBN 13
- 9780399160349
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About This Item
G.P. Putnam's , 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Chapter Decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2014 G.P. Putnam's hardcover (white boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Chapter decorations only. CONTENT: Theo, 17, is determined to become one of the few African American professional ballet dancers. While she's preparing for a high-stakes audition, flirting with a new crush (a talented pianist who also happens to be the local pot dealer), and recovering from a bout of anorexia, she learns that her best friend, Donovan, who went missing four years earlier, has suddenly returned. Donovan's kidnapper was Theo's former boyfriend, an adult who lied about his age to the then-13-year-old dancer. Theo thought what she and Trent (aka Chris) had was love, but she gradually realizes that it was actually something more sinister. Debut author Colbert bravely chooses realistic, if not necessarily happy resolutions to some subplots: Theo's decision to testify against Chris forces her to put her ballet career on hold, and what looks like a promising new romance turns unexpectedly sour.
Synopsis
Theo is better now. She’s eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way to becoming an elite ballet dancer. But when her oldest friend, Donovan, returns home after spending four long years with his kidnapper, Theo starts reliving memories about his abductionand his abduct or. Donovan isn’t talking about what happened, and even though Theo knows she didn’t do anything wrong, telling the truth would put everything she’s been living for at risk. But keeping quiet might be worse. Brandy Colbert dazzles in this heartbreaking yet hopeful debut novel about learning how to let go of even our most shameful secrets.
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- Bookseller
- Pacaritambo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003929
- Title
- POINTE
- Author
- COLBERT, Brandy
- Illustrator
- Chapter Decorations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399160345
- ISBN 13
- 9780399160349
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Ballet, Performing Arts, African-American Teens, African-American ballerinas, Dance Fiction, Teens & Sex, Sexual Abuse, Social Issues,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Young Adult: Fiction; Arts: Ballet; Young Adult: Social Issues; Young Adult: Romance; Teen & Young Adult;
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