Pointe

Name: Pointe
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Brandy Colbert
ISBN: 9781705047484

Author: Brandy Colbert

Narrator: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/19/2021

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Performing Arts, Social Themes

Synopsis

Theo is better now.

She’s eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way to becoming an elite ballet dancer. But when her oldest friend, Donovan, returns
home after spending four long years with his kidnapper, Theo starts reliving memories about his abduction—and his abductor.

Donovan isn’t talking about what happened, and even though Theo knows she didn’t do anything wrong, telling the truth would put everything she’s been living
for at risk. But keeping quiet might be worse.

Brandy Colbert dazzles in this heartbreaking yet hopeful debut novel about learning how to let go of even our most shameful secrets.

About Brandy Colbert

Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of several books for children and teens, including Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which was the winner of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the American Library Association's Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award. Her other acclaimed books include The Blackwoods, Pointe, The Voting Booth, The Only Black Girls in Town, and the Stonewall Book Award winner Little & Lion. A member of the faculty at Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children, Brandy lives in Los Angeles. You can find her online at brandycolbert.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Giselle

I have mixed feelings towards Pointe and it leans closer to a 3.5 read. For one, it ended up being an incredibly heartbreaking, tragic, and important story. For another, it's well written with a compelling narrator who's a realistic portrayal of a teenager with a shattered self-esteem. And all of it......more

Goodreads review by Elle

Some contemporaries are cute and fluffy. This is not one of them. This book is brutal, and emotional, and yet so fucking real. Pointe is a book about ballet and sexual abuse, but in some ways, it's really a book about finding yourself, no matter what you've been through. ♔ Theo is one of the most be......more

Goodreads review by Meli

TRE-MEN-DO En todos los sentidos. Es una historia mega dura, que nos enfrenta con una realidad distinta, pero lamentablemente, verosimil. Theo es una protagonista ejemplar. Más allá de sus traumas, problemas y enfermedad, es una de las protagonistas más sanas con las que me he cruzado en este tipo de......more

Goodreads review by Monica

Una historia fuerte, con muchos matices y que hace que sientas muchísimas cosas. La vida en el ballet no es fácil y si tienes que lidiar con otros asuntos igual de complicados es todavía más difícil sobresalir pero es algo que no es imposible y en esta historia nos lo demuestran. Algunas veces hay que......more