and it's this complexity and empathy that set this gripping story apart.'- Publishers Weekly, starred review 'Colbert has put out a stunningly poignant novel.

drama, plus pointe shoes? Yes, please: this is one book that's bound to make a splash.'-MTV News 'A brave and resonant debut that is as captivating as it is heartbreaking.'-Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still 'Brandy Colbert's debut is beautiful, sharp and memorable.'-Courtney Summers, author of Cracked Up to Be *'Colbert builds characters whose flaws, struggles, and bad decisions make them real and indelibly memorable. Readers who discover this book will be unable to put it down.'- VOYA, Praise for Brandy Colbert's Pointe A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2014 A Los Angeles Public Library Best Teen Book of 2014 A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Book of 2014 A 2014 Publishers Weekly Flying Start A 2014 CYBILS Award Finalist '. (Apr.Praise for Brandy Colbert's Pointe '.

Colbert gives all her characters similar depth (including the pianist/school drug dealer Theo is drawn to, even though he has a girlfriend), and it’s this complexity and empathy that set this gripping story apart. Theo may be a gifted and driven dancer, but she’s also still a 17-year-old who can shut down a smug classmate with an acid remark, drinks and smokes with her friends, became sexually involved with an older guy at 13 (and never really thought of it as rape), is keeping an eating disorder in check, and carries heavy secrets about her connection to Donovan’s disappearance. In honest, confident prose, Colbert builds characters whose flaws, struggles, and bad decisions make them real and indelibly memorable. Debut novelist Colbert has written an extraordinary book about dance, seamlessly intertwined with the chilling aftermath of a kidnapping. When her childhood best friend Donovan-who disappeared four years earlier at age 13-resurfaces, Theo’s life is upended.

Theo Cartwright, from one of the few black families in a predominantly white Chicago suburb, lives for ballet, and she’s destined for stardom on stage.

Pointe by brandy colbert