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Glowfly Dance

Author: Jade Gibson

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1415206546

‘I never see my father. My father never sees me. But I see with the eyes he gave me. Slanted like the wings of gulls flying in the sky. And, when my mother speaks of Mexico, her eyes mist up with the lights of memory.’ Through young Mai’s eyes, life is enchanting and full of beauty. She dances on her grandfather’s feet while he talks of freedom. But the world is hard and her mother is struggling. When Rashid arrives, he casts a deep shadow over their lives. Nothing is beyond her new stepfather. They are desperate to escape from him, and their world becomes a constant battle for survival – one of fleeing, multiple identities, abduction and upheaval. Mai’s eyes not only witness the story of her mother, but also the poignant stories of the many women she encounters across different countries. Finally, Mai learns that, when freedom comes, it comes at a bitter price. From Mexico to Scotland to London to North Africa, the West Indies and back again, Glowfly Dance is a powerful and haunting story of migration, resilience and, ultimately, hope.

Best "New" African Poets 2016 Anthology

Author: Tendai Mwanaka

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2024-01-23

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 177933172X

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Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Moçambique, Ghana, and Nigeria. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are expressed in parallel with existentialist perspectives that in turn go hand in hand with love, desire, hankering, joy, sensuality that transports us to epic, lyrical, utopian contexts without being lost in fantasy, they are artistic lines sometimes with traditional and sometimes more innovative touches. However, in contrast and to a lesser extent, almost as if there were resistant and with restraint we also find desolation, pain, negation that can be so sweet or so bitter that it allows the imagination to stop in a lament or end in resignation.

Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology

Author: Mwanaka, Tendai R.

Publisher: Langaa RPCIG

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9956764892

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Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We also have a healthy number of poets from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Moçambique, Ghana, and Nigeria, as usual. The nationalist sense is the one that most predominates with its pink, blue and gray tints that are expressed in parallel with existentialist perspectives that in turn go hand in hand with love, desire, hankering, joy, sensuality that transports us to epic, lyrical, utopian contexts without being lost in fantasy, they are artistic lines sometimes with traditional and sometimes more innovative touches. However, in contrast and to a lesser extent, almost as if there were resistant and with restraint we also find desolation, pain, negation that can be so sweet or so bitter that it allows the imagination to stop in a lament or end in resignation.

Let's Dance!

Author: Valerie Bolling

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1635921422

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This rhythmic showcase of dances from all over the world features children of diverse backgrounds and abilities tapping, spinning, and boogying away! Tap, twirl, twist, spin! With musical, rhyming text, author Valerie Bolling shines a spotlight on dances from across the globe, while energetic art from Maine Diaz shows off all the moves and the diverse people who do them. From the cha cha of Cuba to the stepping of Ireland, kids will want to leap, dip, and zip along with the dances on the page!

The Firefly Dance

Author: Sarah Addison Allen

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780984125869

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This collection of novellas reveal that childhood is sweetly sad and sadly sweet; profound and deceptively easy to categorize, yet poignant to remember.

The Night Before My Dance Recital

Author: Natasha Wing

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0448488450

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"It's the night before a young girl's first dance recital. At the dress rehearsal, she and her class go over the steps one last time. What if she messes up? she worries. But the next day, she's ready to perform. When the class spins left she spins right. Without missing a beat, she keeps on dancing and smiling"--Amazon.com.

Long Night Dance

Author: Betsy James

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781514105467

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Fifteen-year-old Kat is more her father's housekeeper than his daughter. She must stay close to the hearth, cover her bright hair, and behave like a perfect future wife, for only by marrying well can she redeem her father's reputation. Most of all, she must stay far from Downshore and its savage people-and far from the sea, to which she is powerfully drawn. When at last she gives in to its call and steals to the beach, she finds a gravely injured young man: one of the Rigi, a tribe of half-forgotten seal-people. To save him she must defy her father and her community and ask the people of Downshore for help. But does she have the strength to stand on her own?

I Like to Dance

Author: Takeya Jackson Noble

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-31

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9780578571362

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Ari really Loves to dance. Come along as she tells you just how much she does.

Caterpillar Dance

Author: Will Grace

Publisher: Cartwheel Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 6

ISBN-13: 9780439598798

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In this eye-catching, interactive introduction to the miracle of metamorphosis, children can count backwards from five to one as colorful caterpillars change into gorgeous foil butterflies with each turn of the die-cut pages!

Phantom's Dance

Author: Lesa Howard

Publisher:

Published: 2014-04

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780978818340

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Christine Dadey's family uprooted their lives and moved to Houston for her to attend the prestigious Rousseau Academy of Dance. Now, two years later, Christine struggles to compete among the Academy's finest dancers, her parents are on the brink of divorce, and she's told no one about her debilitating performance anxiety and what she's willing to do to cope with it. Erik was a ballet prodigy, a savant, destined to be a star on the world's stage, but a suspicious fire left Erik's face horribly disfigured. Now, a lonely phantom forced to keep his scars hidden, he spends his nights haunting the theater halls, mourning all he's lost. Then, from behind the curtain he sees the lovely Christine. The moldable, malleable Christine. Drawn in by Erik's unwavering confidence, Christine allows herself to believe Erik's declarations that he can transform her into the dancer she longs to be. But Christine's hope of achieving her dreams may be her undoing when she learns Erik is not everything he claims. And before long, Erik's shadowy past jeopardizes Christine's unstable present as his obsession with her becomes hopelessly entangled with his plans for revenge.