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Gr 9 Up—Theo, 17, is determined to become one of the few African American professional ballet dancers. While she's preparing for a high-stakes audition, flirting with a new crush (a talented pianist who also happens to be the local pot dealer), and recovering from a bout of anorexia, she learns that her best friend, Donovan, who went missing four years earlier, has suddenly returned. Donovan's kidnapper was Theo's former boyfriend, an adult who lied about his age to the then-13-year-old dancer. Theo thou...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

As this suspenseful, absorbing novel opens, seventeen-year-old Theo Cartwright's best friend Donovan (one of the few other black students in her school) has been missing for four years -- long enough for Theo to have made new friends, reached a decisive moment in her serious ballet training, and recovered from the downward spiral of grief and anorexia catalyzed by Donovan's disappearance and her abandonment by older boyfriend Trent. When Donovan is found and the identity of the kidnapper is ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this suspenseful, absorbing novel, seventeen-year-old Theo Cartwright's best friend Donovan reappears after four years missing. Theo soon reali...Log In or Sign Up to Read More