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Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes a nonfiction picture book celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage. As a young girl living in a motel with her mother and her five siblings, Misty Copeland didn't have a lot of exposure to ballet or prominent dancers. She was sixteen when she saw a Black ballerina on a magazine cover for the first...
Series
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Turn and leap into dance from rehearsal to the big show! See what it's like to be a real ballerina as you visit the Pacific Norhwest Ballet, where they practice pirouettes, plies and pointe work.
Author
Series
Publisher
An imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's a dance, dance, evolution! Get to know the plie, arabesque, and other basic steps, and see how ballet has changed over the years. From Anna Pavlova to Mikhail Baryshnikov to Misty Copeland, discover the dancers who added their signature style to this graceful dance form. Go behind the curtain to see what it takes to become a prima ballerina and how a performance comes together"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
True story of five little girls with cerebral palsy or other physical disabilities who were determined to become ballerinas.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Osage Indian ballerina whose love of dance took her from a life on a reservation to a career on the stage.
Author
Publisher
Lil' Libros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces new words in English and Spanish to young readers that tie in with Mexican American ballerina Evelyn Cisneros. Includes a brief summary of Cisnero's life on the back cover.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When she was only five years old, her parents took her to see the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Raven perched on her crushed velvet seat, heard the tympani, and cried with delight even before the curtain lifted. From that moment on, her passion for dance only grew stronger. No black ballerina had ever danced with a major American touring troupe before. Raven would be the first. All Raven Wilkinson wanted to do was dance. On Raven's ninth birthday,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young girl in Cuba, Alicia Alonso practiced ballet in tennis shoes. Within a few years, she was in New York City, with a promising ballet career. But her eyesight began to fail. When Alicia needed surgeries to save her vision, dancing was impossible, but she wouldn't give up her dream. She found the strength and determination to return to the stage and become a prima ballerina. This is the true story of a woman who overcame her challenges, mastered...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet....
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