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Porter, Tracey.
A DANCE OF SISTERS
New York : Joanna Cotler, 2002.
IL 5-8, RL 6.9
ISBN 0060281820
Delia and Pearl are sisters.  They are both coping with the grief of losing their mother in very different ways.  Pearl begins to experiment with white magic and gets expelled from school.  Delia dives into her ballet with dreams of becoming a prima ballerina.  She believes that through hard work she can do the things she wants.  But life at the elite Elanova School of Dance is not what Delia expected.  She is relegated to the back row and is constantly criticized by Madame Elanova for being too fat and too ordinary.  Will these girls find their true destiny in life?  Or will the find that this is all there is?
SUBJECTS:     Ballet dancing -- Fiction.
                        Sisters -- Fiction.
                        Anorexia nervosa -- Fiction.

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