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HIGHLAND FLING, Ernst, Kathleen —
$15.95  192 pgs. 2006. Upper elementary, middle school. A year ago, Tanya Zeshonski was living in Wisconsin, interning at the public television station, and eating Polish food on the holidays. Then her mother divorced her father, reclaimed her maiden name of McDonald, and moved to North Carolina to submerge them all in their Scottish heritage. So now, at 15, Tanya is the oldest beginning school student at the Flora McDonald School of Highland Dance. Instead of pursuing her dream of being a filmmaker, she’s learning the Highland Fling in preparation for the Cross Creek Highland Games. At the games, Tanya must face not only the intricacies of the dance, but the complications brought on by a handsome bagpiper named Miguel, a ghostly ancestor, and the arrival of her father. Tanya’s sharp, funny voice rings true as she describes the delicate steps of the dance and the beginning of her new life. Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies; Grades 3 - 8 Language Arts; Character Education
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