I'm reading this book for the second time and I still love it! It's about a ballet dancer named Emmy, who struggles with the changes of World War 2 and how she copes with going from a sheltered life to poverty. I whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone

Eleven years after the first time I read this book, it is still one of my favorites. I ordered it when I was in the 7th grade from one of those Scholastic order sheets, and read it over and over and over again. Now I teach 7th grade and am excited to read it to my class. I lost my original copy, but am extremely relieved to have found a copy on-line. This copy I will keep close at all times!

Emma Macalik Butterworth is my Grandmother and she has told me many things about what happened to her in World War II and she even showed me a map of where most of the bombings were and she has showed me her last pair of toes shoes she wore. This book is magnificent and I'm not just saying that because she is my Grandmother, I'm saying it because it is the best book I have ever read besides my Grandfather's books which come in a close second place. The book is basically an autobiography with only a few changes in the dialouge. Much more stuff that happened to her she was not able to put into the book because it was too harsh. It is a very good book and was a must read in high schools nationwide in 1982 and 1983.