Dancing in red shoes will kill you

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Label

Dancing in red shoes will kill you

Statement of responsibility

by Dorian Cirrone

Creator

• trueCirrone, Dorian
• Cirrone, Dorian

Subject

• trueArt schools
• trueBallet
• Ballet -- Fiction
• trueBest friends
• trueBreast
• Breast -- Fiction
• trueBreast -- Surgery
• trueCensorship
• Censorship -- Fiction
• trueConformity
• Conformity -- Fiction
• trueFeminism
• trueFlorida
• trueGay teenagers
• trueHigh schools
• High schools -- Fiction
• trueArt
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueSchools
• Schools -- Fiction
• trueSelf-acceptance
• trueSexism
• Sexism -- Fiction
• trueSisters
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• trueTeenage ballet dancers
• trueTeenage boy ballet dancers
• trueTeenage girl artists
• trueTeenage girls
• truePlastic surgery
• Art -- Fiction

Genre

• trueRealistic fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Sixteen-year-old Kayla, a ballet dancer with very large breasts, and her sister Paterson, an artist, are both helped and hindered by classmates as they confront sexism, conformity, and censorship at their high school for the arts while still managing to maintain their sense of humor

Award

• Amelia Bloomer List, 2006
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2007

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

790

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.C499

LC item number

Dan 2004

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790

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 10

Target audience

adolescent