grethel_ 's review for:

The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
5.0

This book was much more nuanced than I expected and it was an amazing surprise. What I thought was going to be a fun story about three girls' friendship and how them competing with each other as ballerinas affected that (think, The Clique-esque), turned out to be an incredible story of friendship throughout the years and how important friends are in the moments when life is a mess. There were so many turns to this book that I didn't expect and once I thought I had it figured out it switched again.

I can't say enough good things about this! I'm buying tickets to a ballet.