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Friday Night Stage Lights
By (Author) Rachele Alpine
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
18th September 2018
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Hardback
352
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 25mm
431g
The Cutting Edge meets Step Up in this hilarious M!X novel where the worlds of football and ballet collide.
Brooklyn Gartner eats, sleeps, and breathes ballet. But after her mom gets remarried and moves them to Texas, everything changes. Thanks to her star football player stepbrother, her family is football obsessed. And thanks to a new conditioning program, the middle school football team starts to take classes at her dance studiothe only place Brooklyn felt like she belonged.
She has a chance to escape if she can get into her dream high school, The Texas School of the Arts, where shell be able to pursue her passion for dance. Brooklyn just has to get through the big All-City showcase first, where a ton of scouts will be there, including one from TSOTA.
But when Brooklyns dance partner gets injured, she has to turn to an unexpected allyLogan, a boy on the middle school football teamto help her get through the showcase. With some fancy footwork, teamwork and a little understanding, can Brooklyn make her mark, and dance her way onto a bigger stage
One of Rachele Alpines first jobs was at a library, but it didnt last long, because all she did was hide in the third-floor stacks and read. Now shes a little more careful about when and where she indulges her reading habit. Rachele is a high school English teacher by day, a wife and mother by night, and a writer during any time she can find in between. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she writes middle grade and young adult novels. Visit her at RacheleAlpine.com.