Confessions of a Back-up Dancer by Tucker Shaw
2005 ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers
K.K. is obsessed with getting THERE when she dances to the top 40 hits of her favorite pop stars. Through luck, hard work, and the encouragement of her gay guy bud, she finds herself dancing as a back-up for one of her favorite stars, a Britney/Jessica Simpson-like Texan flanked by an overpowering mother figure. When K.K. gets THERE around this mater familia, she finds herself in a Tejas-sized heap of trouble. Balancing her dancing, her pride, and her need to scrounge up the moolah to cover the tuition for her juvenile delinquent brother's reform school --- it all proves exhausting for K.K. Will she make it through the summer without breaking her dance contract or losing her realness?
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