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Category: Sierra Leone

  • Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4)

    Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4)

    by Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince

    At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo…

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  • Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

    Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

    by Michaela DePrince with Elaine DePrince

    Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find…

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