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Chance To Dance For You

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By Gail Sidonie Šobat | Published by Great Plains Teen Fiction

  • Mystery
  • Romance
  • Suspense
  • Thriller
  • Fiction

An iconic tale of not fitting in

Ian lives in a suburb where everything's the same. The houses are the same; the cars are the same; the families are the same; and their aspirations are the same. But Ian is different.

Openly gay in his bigoted high school, Ian doesn’t exactly fit in. But he's not worried— he's been training in dance for a long time and soon he'll be able to leave town and train to become a professional. Then he falls in love with Jess, the high school quarterback.

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Silver Moonbeam Award Winner

Canadian Authors’ Association Fred Kerner Award Finalist

Forward Reviews’ Top Ten Best Graphic Novels of 2014

Selected for Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2014 by The Canadian Children’s Book Centre

Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Best Books - Starred (2012)


Reviews

"Gail Sidonie Sobat is a writer of great dexterity, utilizing humour, sarcasm, wit, and tragedy, all to create a narrative that is flowing, energetic, and inspirational…. Ian feels real… he is altogether sympathetic and engaging. His struggles are the struggles of many gay teens in Canada, and Sobat’s first-person narrative style pulls the reader in from the first sentence. Ian’s perspective on life is uncensored and intriguing, consistently bringing attention to aspects of life that many can so easily take for granted…. Highly recommended." - CM Magazine

"Everything about this book pulled me in - the cover, the blurb on the back, the blurbs inside, the very first line...It`s a very short read, just about 150 pages, but a very powerful, honest, thoughtful, delightful and sweetly heartbreaking one. I don`t think there`s a single thing I want to add or remove. I *LOVED* this novel - I read it in a couple hours and simply devoured it. [Ian’s] strength, his attitude, his charisma, his dramatics, his self-righteousness, his passion, his heart [were] all so human, so real, and so wonderful to read…. ***** It was just such a lovely, heartbreakingly refreshing read." - Mabel’s Fables Bookstore

"Read this very real and bittersweet story that juxtaposes love with prejudice, courage with fear, and sensitivity with harshness, all to enhance our understanding of what it means to be a man." - Helen Kubiw, Can Lit for Little Canadians

"The end of the book is tough and it’s gritty…. tackl[ing]…really raw topics…tough topics for teens." - Ken Davis, CKUA’s Bookmark

"[A] love story…quite realistically and compellingly told…. I definitely wanted to keep reading to see what was going to happen with this most unlikely couple. The other thing that’s really well done in this novel is all the dance stuff. You really get a sense of how hard it is—physically, mentally, emotionally. The author, and this was very clever, chose to make Ian a bit of a know-it-all….there’s actually a lot of information mixed in that might be useful and interesting to a teenager who’s gay or questioning or maybe has a gay friend." - Nikki Tate, CBC All Points West Bookclub

"Gail Sidonie Sobat has infused Chance to Dance for You with music, dance and humour….[and] is able to go where few LGBTQ teen novels have gone before: beyond the coming-out novel….CTDFY is a positive and hopeful novel." - Michele Collins, Canadian Children’s Book News

"At least twice while reading, I put the book down for a moment to savour a visual. One was a sublimely romantic scene suggested by a few bare sentences and the other was the ending – which was unexpected, unsentimental and…[which] resolves on an admirable note of strength and integrity for the hero….It is also wonderful to read a novel about a queer youth who is happily, unambivalently gay and is accepted by family and close friends." - OUTVisions Magazine

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