Alphabet City Ballet

Marisol has always loved to dance—to the salsa at family parties, to the boom boxes on Loisada Avenue.Then she wins a scholarship to ballet school and discovers an inspiring new world of beauty and discipline. But when violence erupts in Alphabet City, Marisol’s dream starts to slip away. To keep dancing she must make heartbreaking choices—perhaps impossible ones.

1996 America’s Commended List (CLASP)