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The Hip Hope Dancer is the true story of a young Inuit boy who lives on Baffin Island in Nunavut Canada. He learns how to hip hop dance when Canadian Floor Masters visit his hamlet. However, he has a problem: he can never finish a dance. He goes around town showing many groups of people his hip hop moves and no one can help him...until his drum-dancing grandfather tells him the truth. Drugs are affecting his mental health and ability to dance, so he must choose between them.

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"Dawn Elizabeth Doyle (DED) is not DED, but very much alive and travels back and forth between Nova Scotia and Ontario. She recently retired from teaching and is now writing and editing. She finds writing keeps her happy and healthy. While teaching up north in the Arctic, one of her projects was helping a group of Inuit children on Baffin Island write and illustrate a book. She was teaching high school in the little hamlet of Clyde River when out of the blue, a group of nine students asked ""Miss Dawn"" if she would help them write a story they were anxious to tell. Two years & many laughs and tears later, the book was finished. This is the result: THE HIP HOPE DANCER. No, not the HIP HOP DANCER...THE HIP HOPE DANCER... Read the story and find out why these Inuit kids changed the HOP to HOPE. It's an amazing story that will either make your heart skip a beat or bring tears to your eyes. Check out her website: dawnofcomposition.ca"

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