![]() She battled back from the eating disorder triggered by those twin traumas. Her best friend Donovan disappeared four years earlier, not long after her secret older "boyfriend" left without saying goodbye. She's an all-too-familiar example of a girl who, instead of putting the blame on the real perpetrator, punishes herself.Ī talented ballet dancer and one of the only African-Americans at her suburban Chicago high school, Theo is strong in many ways. She's a victim who doesn't realize she's been victimized. Seventeen-year-old Theo, the achingly believable heroine of Brandy Colbert's debut young adult novel, "Pointe," inspires that level of connection and concern. ![]() If, while reading a novel, you long to reach into the pages, grab the main character, and tell her, "No, you've got it all wrong," then the author is clearly doing something right. ![]()
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