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The turning Cover Image Book Book

The turning

Whelan, Gloria. (Author).

Summary: In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.

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  • ISBN: 9780060755935
  • ISBN: 9780060755942 (lib. bdg.)
  • ISBN: 0060755938
  • ISBN: 0060755946 (lib. bdg.)
  • Physical Description: print
    213 p ; 19 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, c2006.

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Subject: Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova -- Juvenile fiction
Defectors -- Soviet Union -- Juvenile fiction
Ballet dancing -- Juvenile fiction
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Soviet Union -- History -- Attempted coup, 1991 -- Juvenile fiction
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction

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