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Michaela DePrince was known as female no. 27 at the orphanage where she was abandoned at a time and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition which makes her skin look spotted. Nonetheless it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a lovely ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. At age four, Michaela was adopted by an American family who prompted her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She continued to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis College at the North american Ballet Theatre and now dances for the Dutch Country wide Ballet. In this engaging, moving, and memorable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic quest from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet's most thrilling rising stars.
