Billy Elliot

By Lee Hall, Melvin Burgess

Subjects: Ballet dancers, Juvenile fiction

Description: Billy's mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved in a bitter miners' fight that has split the local community. Billy's father wants his son to learn boxing, like he did and his father before him. But Billy is fascinated by the grace and magic of ballet and is determined to dance his way to a different future.