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English
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"Luca Mason knows exactly who he is and what he wants: In six months, he's going to be accepted into the Australian Ballet School, leave his fancy private high school, and live his life as a star of the stage--at least that's the plan until he falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his foot in a way he can never recover from. With his dancing dreams dead on their feet, Luca loses his performing arts scholarship and transfers to the local public...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 115
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Jessi has a chance to join a prestigious dance company in New York, but she can't decide if she is ready to leave her Stoneybrook friends.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Zuri Ray loves trying extraordinary new things but when Jessie, her Best Friend From Diapers, chooses ballet Zuri Ray finds it too challenging until the teacher encourages her to be herself.
44) Swinging at love
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Outfielder Tristan Murrell has a problem. As the number two slugger for the Suttonville Sentinels, his team is counting on him to make their very first run at the state championship. But he has a secret-- his swing has totally deserted him. As in, he can't hit anything. He needs to fix the issue, and fast, but how? Ballerina Alyssa Kaplan has a problem, too. The shiny new sports complex in town has left her family's batting cage business on the verge...
Author
Publisher
Boxer Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rehearsing to perform the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in a recital of scenes from The Nutcracker, an excited Ballet Kitty wonders about what to do when her best friend wants to dance the same solo.
Author
Language
English
Description
An exuberant and relatable picture book about sibling rivalry, ballet, and finding your free-form self. Confidence goes a long way, and so does practice-but the support of a loving family and community matters even more in this winsome tale of dancing your way into your own unique talents. Tessie has taken ballet for a whole month and thinks she has it down. If it weren't for her big sister, Maya, who seems to own the spotlight, Tessie would dazzle...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1980s Minnesota, when auditions for a concert with Prince are announced, 16-year-old Rosa Dominguez, the daughter of a tyrant ballet master, is desperate to escape her pointe shoes and show everyone what she can do"--
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 12
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
134 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An emotional story about a former ballerina who is thrust back into 'normal' high school after a life-changing injury, and who comes to terms with life without her passion as well as discrimination in the ballet world"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sofía Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she's dreamed of and worked...
Author
Publisher
Rebel Girls
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alicia was born to dance. She's determined to become a professional ballerina. A few years later, Alicia moves from Cuba to the United States to follow her dreams. Then, Alicia begins to lose her sight. How can a ballerina dance if she can't see where she's going? Stuck in bed and only able to practice with her fingertips, Alicia doesn't give up.--
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
While exploring, Lola the cat comes across a stage with a ballet performance about to begin. Lola puts on a costume and joins right in, dancing beautiful pirouettes, arabesques, and pas de chats (the step of the cat). When she accidentally stumbles and trips, however, it is up to Lola to save the show--
55) Backyard ballet
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Leah wants to put on her own ballet after seeing Swan Lake, she calls on twin genies-in-training Shimmer and Shine to help her achieve her wish to dance like the Swan Queen.
56) Last dance
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
197 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An injured dancer uses the aid of a dark spirit to regain her title as prima ballerina, but it comes with a cost!"--
57) Turning
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl explores her love of dancing and her cultural identity in a lively picture book with echoes of the real-life collaboration between Bharatanatyam icon Rukmini Devi Arundale and ballerina Anna Pavlova"--
59) Cockatoo, too
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When two cockatoos meet two other cockatoos and two toucans, all the birds of the jungle put on tutus to find out if they can can-can.
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 sheet of stickers
Language
English
Description
Angelina is happy to win the lead in the spring recital, but when she sees how sad her best friend Alice is at being an understudy, Angelina comes up with an idea to please her.
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