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Title Ready to fly : how Sylvia Townsend became the bookmobile ballerina / story told by Lea Lyon and A. LaFaye ; foreword by Sylvia Townsend ; illustrated by Jessica Gibson.

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New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Non-Fiction	OUTREACH J 792.802 Lyo	PPL Bookmobile	Available
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Non-Fiction	OUTREACH J 792.802 Lyo c.2	PPL Bookmobile	Available

Edition	First edition.
Description	1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page [38]).
Summary	Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet. Soon Sylvia learns how to fly-- how to dance--and how to dare to dream. Includes a note from the author and a brief history of the bookmobile.
Subject	Townsend, Sylvia Robertson, 1943- -- Juvenile literature.
	Ballet dancers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Ballerinas -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American ballerinas -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American dancers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Picture books.
Added Author	LaFaye, A., author.
	Townsend, Sylvia Robertson, 1943- writer of foreword.
	Gibson, Jessica (Illustrator), illustrator.
ISBN	9780062888785
	0062888781