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The turning

Gloria Whelan

2006185 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780060755935
  • 2006Thorndike Press · 185 pages · ENGISBN 9780786290352

In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.

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Written forMiddle grade

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ThemesMorality
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