When her grandmother dies, Kayla, a young African-American girl, loses the only mother she has ever known and must leave her farm life in South Carolina to live with an aunt and uncle in Chicago. Throughout the difficult times, however, Kayla clings to her dream of becoming a ballerina.
This is a wonderful sad book. Its about a girl who lives with her granpa and grandma in South Carolina on a farm, because her mother died and her father goes around the world to Dance.When her Grandma dies she goes to live with her cousins in Chicago, when she does dancing lessons at the park and tries out far a audition.