Cover of The turning

The turning

by Gloria Whelan

2006 185 pages eng

Children's Fiction Literary Fiction History
Defectors Soviet union, fiction Ballet dancing Dance, fiction Conduct of life, fiction Conduct of life Large type books Children's fiction Juvenile fiction History Fiction

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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