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Aladdin (1996), Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed, Paperback, 72 pages
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Ten-year-old Marie dreams of becoming a ballerina, but without a wealthy sponsor, she faces a more mundane future dictated by her family's position in pre-Revolutionary Parisian society.
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Marie loves to dance more than anything, but her life isn’t all dancing. She experiences changes in her own life and in all of Paris. She spends time with her best friend, Joelle, and new American friend, Prudence, and wonders if she will be able to experience her own dream of becoming a dancer
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in a changing Paris. The history is slightly sketchy. Show Less
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Marie's family cannot afford to put her through dancing school, and she fears that she will never reach her goal of becoming a ballerina, but one day a surprise audition is held in the oddest of places and greatly changes Marie's destiny.
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72 p.; 6 x 0.25 inches
ISBN
0689809859 / 9780689809859
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