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Book 2009

The girl who wanted to dance

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Publisher
Candlewick
Language
English
Published
2009
  • Dance
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fathers
  • Grandmothers
  • Fiction

Clara loves to dance, but her father has had too much sadness in his life to abide dancing. When Clara sees a troupe of dancers performing in the village one June day, she is enchanted enough to follow their wagons deep into the forest--and what she finds there changes her life forever.