SummaryDeep in my heart, a part of me will always be barefoot,
running through the shallows of Mulberry Creek, with my eyes
closed and my arms stretched out like I could fly.
Julia Costell never expects that the diary entry of a
thirteen-year-old girl will be what saves her. Once a gifted
ballet dancer, Julia understands the joy of body and soul
lost in a perfect moment. But after buckling under the
demands of a professional dance career, she's landed with a
thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a
performing arts high school. Living back home with her
parents, and feeling lost, Julia is afraid she'll never soar
again. Until the day young Dell Jordan is sent to her office.
In Dell's writing, Julia recognizes not only her own
despair, but also luminous sparks of hope. But as Julia
fights to forge a brighter future for one disadvantaged
student, she is drawn into startling undercurrents of
conflict and denial with the academy. Only when she is test
in ways she never could have imagined does she begin to
discover where real meaning and fulfillment lie, and realize
that even though her life has seemed off course, she's been
on the right path all along.
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