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Vick,
Rod.
THE SECRET CEILI Mukwonago, WI : Laikituk Creek, 2008 ISBN 0977948641 |
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would you do it you really wanted to do something, but didn't have enough
money? Would you take a job? Well that's what Kaylee O'Shay did- to pay
for a dance competition. Kaylee is thrilled when she is asked to be on
a team for her Irish dance school. Challenges come her way throughout this
book for plenty of different reasons. Reasons that vary from her dance
dress all the way to finding the money for the trip. Miss Helen is requiring
she has her forms and paperwork filled out by a certain time. Kaylee doesn’t
know whether to not to ask her parents for the money or just not go. What
would you do?
'Money'? Tom O'Shay had said, rubbing his thumb and forefinger together meaningfully. 'That's the only issue'? Money was always the issue at the O'Shays house. Is it a dance competition, or a competition for Kaylee's social position? Will she make it or not? To find out read the realistic novel of The Secret Ceili by Rod Vick. (Alison S. , 9as03der@birmingham.k12.mi.usm K-12 student) |
| SUBJECTS:
Ceilidh dancing -- Fiction.
Folk dancing, Irish -- Fiction. Dance -- Fiction. |
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