Off Pointe

When Meg’s summer ballet program is canceled and her ballet teacher suggests she attend Camp Dance to learn new dance styles, Meg is devastated.

Worse still, Meg’s teacher thinks she lacks stage presence and needs to connect more with her audience. At camp, Meg struggles to learn contemporary dance. A girl named Logan, who is jealous of Meg’s ballet technique and her friendship with Nio, a cute contemporary dancer, makes Meg’s life even more difficult. When Meg, Nio and Logan have to work together to create a piece for the final show, arguments threaten to ruin their dance. Unless they are able to overcome their differences, Meg’s time at Camp Dance will have been a disaster from start to finish.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Leanne Lieberman is the author of three YA novels: Gravity, The Book of Trees and Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust. Her fiction has been published in Descant, The New Quarterly, Fireweed, The Antigonish Review and other journals. These days Leanne only dances in her kitchen, but she still dreams from time to time that she’s dancing onstage. Leanne lives in Kingston, Ontario.