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At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter poverty in his rural China home, ballet would be his family's best chance for a better future. From one hardship to another, Cunxin demonstrated perseverance and an appetite...
62) Josephine Baker
Josephine...
63) Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf fell in love with dance as a child. But he was not allowed to go to ballet school until he was 17. There, he had to make up for lost time and hone his skills to compete with the other dancers. As a professional, he dazzled audiences with sensational performances and star power....
65) Who is Zendaya?
67) Meghan Trainor
Meet famous music star Meghan Trainor! In this engaging title, readers will learn about Trainor's childhood in Massachusetts, her early education at the Berklee College of Music, her move to Nashville, Tennessee and her early songwriting career. Trainor's breakout song "All About that Bass" and album Title are covered, as is her charitable work with the Charlotte and Gwyneth Gray Foundation. Table of contents, map, "Did You Know" fact boxes, a
...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...
69) RuPaul
Even before little Ru was born, a fortune teller told his mum that he would one day be famous... It was only a matter of time before he figured out how. Playing dress-up was his favourite game, and that's where he...
With never-before-seen images, exclusive interviews and personal stories, Mark Cotta Vaz...
You may think you know everything about multiplatform entertainer Matthew Espinosa—but he's here to tell you so much more in his debut book, full of hundreds of brand-new pictures from a series of exclusive photo shoots.
You know Matthew is burning up the internet with more than 18 million fans across YouTube, Vine, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. You know about his starring role in the hit movie Be Somebody.
...The inspiring life and legacy of vocal artist and civil rights icon Paul Robeson—one of the most important public figures in the twentieth century—adapted for young adults by the acclaimed Robeson biographer
"As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this." —Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was destined for greatness. The
...From personalities and entertainers Kian Lawley and Jc Caylen comes a completely wild and entirely true account of their rise to internet fame: Kian and Jc: Don't Try This at Home! More than seven million YouTube subscribers, five million Twitter followers,...
78) Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn grew up in Arnhem in the Netherlands. After living through the hardships of World War Two, she moved to study ballet in London. She went on to star in plays and films, eventually becoming one of the most iconic actresses of all time. This moving book features stylish...