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21) The yellow tutu
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Margo gets a sunny yellow tutu for her birthday it is exactly what she wants, and she wears it to school--on her head.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
In this evocative and heartwarming novel for readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish, the author of I Can Make This Promise tells the story of a Native American girl struggling to find her joy again. It's been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions. Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can't understand how hopeless she feels....
Author
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After seeing a picture of a ballerina, Lettice determines to become a dancer and soon joins a class where she learns all the moves, but in the end Lettice goes home to discover that being a rabbit is the best thing of all.
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Formats
Description
"With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents’ death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara’s husband and once their mother’s prized student. Marie, warm and...
27) Starring Rosie
Author
Series
Ballet slippers volume 3
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rosie volunteers to provide the prince and the props for her ballet class production of "Sleeping Beauty."
Author
Series
Tanya series volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tanya wants to dance in toe shoes the way her sister does.
29) Clorinda
Author
Series
Clorinda the cow books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Defying the odds, Clorinda the cow follows her dream of becoming a ballet dancer.
Author
Series
Belinda the ballerina volume 1
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Belinda auditions for the Spring Ballet Recital and the judges tell her she can not be a ballerina because her feet are too big, she tries to forget about dancing.
32) Fancy Dancer
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Description
Finding himself in an awkward position when he is sentenced to community service--with his newly-found half-brother, Alex, as his parole officer--Jake St. Cloud decides to make the most of his work with Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at their foundation for neglected children.
33) Turning point
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Best friends Rasheeda and Monique navigate the ups and downs of a teenager's summer, Mo at home in the Cove; Sheeda at a sleepaway ballet intensive"--
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
"A smart and good movie..."--Roger Ebert.
"A smart, stylish thriller!"--Washington Post.
"...an intriguing entertainment."--Los Angeles Times.
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Description
Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. From ballet's origins in the...
37) Doomed to Dance
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 27
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
39) Center Stage
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Young dancers at the American Ballet Company compete and strive to succeed.
Description
Dance your way to a magical adventure with Barbie as Kristyn, a ballerina with big dreams! When she tries on a pair of sparkling pink shoes, she and her best friend, Hailey, are whisked away to a fantastical ballet world. There, Kristyn discovers she must dance in her favorite ballets in order to defeat an evil Snow Queen. With performances to the legendary Giselle and Swan Lake ballets, it's a wonderful journey where if you dance with your heart,...