On Pointe

On Pointe is a children's novel about an aspiring ballet dancer by Lorie Ann Grover, first published in 2004.

She hopes to be selected for City Ballet, a program for very skilled dancers, although there are only sixteen positions available.

After a growth spurt, she is judged too tall for professional ballet and advised to take a dance class for adult amateurs.

It seems her dream is crushed, but when her grandfather has a stroke, losing the ability to talk and move his right side, her perspective alters.

School Library Journal said that the novel was "finely written", and commented of the main character that "the teen's voice rings true".