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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
Paperback (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, July 10, 2012)A dashed dream leads to a rash decision in the fifth installment of Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle.Mina Smiths lives to dance, so her scholarship to ballet camp seems like a dream come true. She doesn’t even mind being the only black girl in the troupe—that is, until she is told she’ll never be a classical dancer. It’s then that Mina begins to face some difficult truths about race and identity and transfers her passion for dance to Tamer Shipp, the summer minister for her church. The problem is, he’s a grown man with a family, but she can’t stop wishing for more to their friendship than simply pastor and parishioner. Cynthia Voigt’s incomparable mastery of character and community shines forth in this stirring novel from her acclaimed Tillerman cycle.
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
eBook (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Feb. 19, 2013)A dashed dream leads to a rash decision in the fifth installment of Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle.Mina Smiths lives to dance, so her scholarship to ballet camp seems like a dream come true. She doesn’t even mind being the only black girl in the troupe—that is, until she is told she’ll never be a classical dancer. It’s then that Mina begins to face some difficult truths about race and identity and transfers her passion for dance to Tamer Shipp, the summer minister for her church. The problem is, he’s a grown man with a family, but she can’t stop wishing for more to their friendship than simply pastor and parishioner. Cynthia Voigt’s incomparable mastery of character and community shines forth in this stirring novel from her acclaimed Tillerman cycle.
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
Mass Market Paperback (Simon Pulse, Nov. 1, 1995)Mina Smith, an African-American girl longing to be a ballerina, learns at ballet camp that she will never be a classical dancer and starts to confront her feelings about being black, in a continuation of the popular Tillerman family saga. Reprint.
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
Hardcover (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, July 10, 2012)A dashed dream leads to a rash decision in the fifth installment of Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle.Mina Smiths lives to dance, so her scholarship to ballet camp seems like a dream come true. She doesn’t even mind being the only black girl in the troupe—that is, until she is told she’ll never be a classical dancer. It’s then that Mina begins to face some difficult truths about race and identity and transfers her passion for dance to Tamer Shipp, the summer minister for her church. The problem is, he’s a grown man with a family, but she can’t stop wishing for more to their friendship than simply pastor and parishioner. Cynthia Voigt’s incomparable mastery of character and community shines forth in this stirring novel from her acclaimed Tillerman cycle.
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
Mass Market Paperback (Fawcett Juniper, Jan. 1, 1986)Although devastated when she is asked to leave an exclusive Connecticut ballet school, Mina Smiths finds solace in her friendship with Tamer Shipp, the summer minister, and learns about his own difficult adolescence, Harlem ministry, and family life.
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
Hardcover (Atheneum, Sept. 1, 1986)Mina's deep love for a grown-up minister drives her to seek a way to give him an unforgettable remembrance, restoration of his faith.
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
Paperback (Simon & Schuster, Aug. 16, 1995)None
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
Hardcover (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Aug. 16, 2012)A dashed dream leads to a rash decision in the fifth installment of Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman cycle. Mina Smiths lives to dance, so her scholarship to ballet camp seems like a dream come true. She doesn't even mind being the only black girl in the troupe--that is, until she is told she'll never be a classical dancer. It's then that Mina begins to face some difficult truths about race and identity and transfers her passion for dance to Tamer Shipp, the summer minister for her church. The problem is, he's a grown man with a family, but she can't stop wishing for more to their friendship than simply pastor and parishioner. Cynthia Voigt's incomparable mastery of character and community shines forth in this stirring novel from her acclaimed Tillerman cycle.
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, July 10, 2012)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Although devastated when she is asked to leave an exclusive Connecticut ballet school, Mina Smith finds solace in her friendship with Tamer Shipp, the summer minister, and learns about his own difficult adolescence, Harlem ministry, and family life.
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Come a Stranger
Dorothy Rivers
Paperback (HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, Aug. 16, 1900)Mina Smith, an African-American girl longing to be a ballerina, learns at ballet camp that she will never be a classical dancer and starts to confront her feelings about being black, in a continuation of the popular Tillerman family saga. Reprint.
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Come a Stranger
Cynthia Voigt
Paperback (Tracks, Sept. 15, 1988)None