Center Stage-Satn Slp2

by Elizabeth Bernard

Book Overview

Center Stage (Satin Slippers Series, No 2) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449133001
• ISBN13: 9780449133002
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

The Darker Side of Ballet

This book is about Leah and her new male dance partner James. Although James is the lead male dancer in the school, soon to join the company, he has issues dealing with the impression that many people form of him when it becomes known that he is a male ballet dancer. All that he has ever wanted to do is to dance but he constantly feels like he is being threatened to either be perfect or to lose his choice parts to other upcoming dancers. As much as James loves ballet he doesn't take care of his own body or his partners, going so far as to threaten Leah when she watches him get injured and he tries to cover it up. Overall a darker book than the first one but very good.

Backstage Ballet

These wonderfully light books give a glamorized look at the world of ballet dancing. While some of the situations are not realistic the relationships between the characters are excellent. In this book Leah faces a driven costar who endangers both of their careers with his ambition. Her confusion and fear help to give this book a depth that some of the others in the serries do not have.

Ballet dancers galore

This book like all the others in the series gives you a behind the scenes view of the competive and difficult world of ballet.In this book, the heroine, Leah, recieves another streak of good luck and manages to get the leading role in a performance. Unfortunately, her partner, the ever arrogant James recieves and serious leg injury which he refuses to treat causing a threat to Leah and his career.I love this book partly because I like ballet and partly because of the glamour the ballet world is threaded in and out of the story giving it a exciting appeal. I've read it at least 5 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!