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A Time to Dance

by Padma Venkatraman

Ages: 14+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin

ISBN: 978-0-399-25710-0

Keywords: Dance, Amputees, Diversity

In India, a talented girl, Vida, lives to dance. After she loses her lower right leg in an accident, she refuses to give up dancing. Written in free verse.