Maggie Adams, Dancer — Karen Strickler Dean

Maggie Adams lives in a dancer's world -- of strained muscles and dirty toe shoes, sacrifices and triumphs, hard work and tough competition. In her world her only friends are dancers -- Joyce, who wisely recognizes the limitations of her dancing ability and little Lupe, so afraid of being overweight that she refuses to eat at all. In Maggie's world there is rune time for anything but dance, as her family and her boyfriend come to learn. Her mother spoils her, her father isn't convinced of her talent, and her boyfriend can't understand why he doesn't come first in her life. But Maggie -- spirited, gifted and determined -- will let nothing stand in her way Before all else. Maggie Adams is a dancer