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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 04 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Carine Montbertrand. |
| Summary |
Dancing with the Paris Opera ballet is 14-year-old Marie van Goethem's greatest joy. And yet she must honor her father's dying request to keep their poverty-stricken family together. She certainly can't count on the help of her drunken mother or selfish older sister. When famous artist Edgar Degas asks Marie to model for a sculpture, she welcomes the income-although she's hesitant to pose nude. Her bi-weekly visits to Degas' cluttered art studio introduce her to unimagined wonders and mysteries. But when the sculpture is finished, she refuses to be a rich man's mistress. She instead earns honest income as a seamstress while hoping for her chance at true love. An award-winning author of more than 50 books, Carolyn Meyer captivates young adults with her vivid historical fiction. Using actual details about the ballerina Degas immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, Meyer creates a seamless narrative of Marie's life as it might have been in 1870s Paris. "As with her Young Royals series, Meyer's ability to sweep readers to another time and place while bringing historic figures to life once again results in a mesmerizing novel."-Publishers Weekly, starred review |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 -- Fiction.
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Ballet dancing -- Juvenile fiction.
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Poverty -- Juvenile fiction.
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Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Juvenile fiction.
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France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Ballet dancing -- Fiction.
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Poverty -- Fiction.
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Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction.
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France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940 -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Montbertrand, Carine. narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781449899455 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1449899455 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13525962 |
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