Leslie DuBois

Leslie DuBois writes contemporary middle-grade fiction, with dance, school life, and social pressure shaping her Dancing Dream series. The Queen Bee of Bridgeton opens that sequence with Sonya Garrison, a fifteen-year-old dancer attending the private Bridgeton Academy. Sonya’s scholarship offers a route toward her ambition of becoming a professional dancer, but new attention at school draws her into rivalry, rumors, and questions about belonging. DuBois contrasts Sonya’s home in Venton Heights with the wealth surrounding Bridgeton, making class and identity central to the school story rather than decorative background. Little Prince Publishing later issued a substantial preview that identifies the novel within the Dancing Dream series. The sequence continues Sonya’s development beyond the first book, while the opening volume establishes her discipline and her complicated position between different communities. DuBois has published several novels, but Sonya’s dance-centered story remains a prominent strand of her work.