Billy Elliot is growing up in a struggling coal-mining town in Yorkshire. His father wants him to learn to box, like he did, but Billy has other ideas. Encouraged in secret by a local teacher, he's determined to dance his way to a different future ...
A reissue of popular middle-grade author Melvin Burgess's novelisation of "Billy Elliot". Encouraged in secret by a local teacher, a boy in a struggling mining town immerses himself in the transcendent power of dancing.