Dancing in the Dark by Robyn Bavati

      I wanted to give you one last, great book recommendation before summer!  I just finished Dancing in the Dark by Robyn Bavati and absolutely loved it.  This is the story of Ditty Cohen, an Orthodox Jewish teenager, who discovers that she loves ballet.  However, her family and religion do not believe dance is a suitable activity for women.  She begins to secretly takes lessons and manages to keep it from her family for 5 years.  As she becomes a wonderful and very talented dancer, she begins to wonder why her love of dance and her family's religion have to be exclusive of each other.
      This book has a wonderful plot that kept me from putting the book down, but I also loved it for the information about Haredi Jews (who lead a very unique lifestyle) and the inner dialogue Ditty has with herself as she questions the religion that is all she has ever known.