Dance, Kayla! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781418429638)

* DANCE, KAYLA is an engaging novel about a young girl's courage--how she coped with difficult changes in her life. Kayla dreams about her deceased mother--who she never knew--and lives with hope that her absentee, dancing father comes back into her life. Her grandmother's sudden death robs Kayla of the only mother she had known and she leaves her beloved farm in South Carolina to begin a new life with her cousins and a big, inner-city school in Chicago. Through it all Kayla clings to her dream of becoming a ballerina * Reviewers give DANCE, KAYLA five stars It was chosen one of the best of children's books by the Banks Street College Selection Committee. It's a favorite of Mothers' and Daughters' book clubs, and kids say they love it One sixth grade boy said, "Reading Kayla changed my life "

Author: Darwin McBeth Walton
ISBN-10: 1418429635
ISBN-13: 9781418429638
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 12/29/2004
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.34d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 44156 / Dance, Kayla!