**"Addictive, angst-y, and heartfelt."** --**_**Kirkus Reviews**_ "_Bright Burning Stars_ is the compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until the very last stunning turns onstage and beyond. A dazzling, heart-wrenching debut." --Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestsel
Bright Burning Stars
โ Scribed by A.K. Small
- Publisher
- Algonquin Young Readers
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1616209313
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โฆ Synopsis
**"Addictive, angst-y, and heartfelt." **โKirkus Reviews
"Bright Burning Stars is the compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until the very last stunning turns onstage and beyond. A dazzling, heart-wrenching debut." โNova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us
Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they've formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just before the start of their final year, Marine and Kate begin to ask themselves what they would do to win the ultimate prize: to be the one girl selected to join the Opera's prestigious corps de ballet. Would they die? Cheat? Seduce the most talented boy in the school, dubbed the Demigod, hoping his magic would make them shine, too? Neither...
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