Just Dance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481472524)

Parents' Choice Recommended

From Newbery Award-winning author Patricia MacLachlan comes a lyrical coming-of-age story about finding your own voice while learning to understand the people you love the most.

Sylvie Bloom wants to find something new and exciting this summer--at least more exciting than the cows, goats, and chickens on her family's farm that she's become accustomed to. Luckily, Sylvie's teacher Mrs. Ludolf has the perfect idea. Sylvie can take over her husband Sheriff Ludolf's column in the newspaper for the summer, reporting on all the important events that happen in their small Wyoming town. Sylvie is thrilled to have a new challenge, but she's not sure she'll actually see anything amazing. At least nothing like the things her mother saw when she traveled the world as a famous opera singer.

Sylvie can't figure out why her mother would give up singing in front of thousands of people. Have she and her brother Nate been holding her mother back? And when her mother's old duet partner James Grayson writes that he's coming to perform nearby, will she be tempted to return to the stage, without them?

Author: Patricia MacLachlan
ISBN-10: 1481472526
ISBN-13: 9781481472524
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.5
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 191343 / Just Dance


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/26/2017
School Library Journal 07/01/2017
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2017
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 pg. 113 - Recommended, Satisfactory