The Incredible Rise of a Young Ballerina, Michaela DePrince.
When Michaela Bangura was nearly five years old, she sat in the kitchen with her adopted mother Elaine and told her all about her life in Africa. “I took notes, thinking to save them for her future, “ says DePrince. “I pulled the notes out of my files last year, and together Michaela and I began working on her memoirs.”...Deirdre Towers, New York.