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Book #2 Center Stage

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  Satin Slippers #2 Center Stage By Elizabeth Bernard (December 1987) 12 Chapters, 144 pages     Chapter 1               Leah Stephenson is in love! With SFBA (San Francisco Ballet Academy) campus, that is, and everything about her new life at the greatest dance school in the entire world. Just this morning in class Madame Preston complimented Leah on her port de bras. Everything is coming up roses for fifteen-year-old Leah on this glorious October day as she basks outside on the lawn between morning and afternoon periods. She gets to dance almost all day and is surrounded by people who eat, breathe and talk ballet all day long. It’s heaven! Lying back on the grass, it would seem nothing could go wrong for Leah at this very moment.   Alexandra “Alex” Sorokin interrupts Leah’s daydream to tease her about the geometry homework she is supposed to be working on. Alex is from Russia and while her English is nearly perfect, three weeks into the new school year has reall
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Book #1 To Be A Dancer

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  Satin Slippers #1 To Be A Dancer By Elizabeth Bernard (October 1987) 13 Chapters, 146 pages     Chapter 1               Leah Stephenson is fighting back tears. Get used to it. She cries, like, ALL THE TIME throughout this entire series and today’s ballet class at the Hannah Greene School in San Lorenzo, California is no different. But first, can’t help but point out some very bad editing on the author’s part. In Leah’s second person limited narrative, she is constantly referring to her teacher in this chapter as Miss Greene except, Leah tells us, her teacher wears a wedding ring and gave up a promising career as a professional dancer to move all the way across the country years ago, before Leah was even born, with her artichoke farmer husband to settle here and raise her own family. Hannah Greene is most definitely NOT a Miss ! Anyway, moving on…               Despite the cover model who looks more like eighteen or twenty, today’s teenage angst for the fiftee
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