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Author
Pub. Date
c1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Angelina is too sick to dance well during the tryouts for the lead in the "Princess of Mouseland" ballet, but when the leading ballerina sprains her foot, Angelina is ready to prove she is still the best dancer of all.
3) Dance!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Black teen dancer with dreams of landing a spot in a prestigious ballet company must learn to dance on her own terms in this explosive debut about the healing power of art and friendship, perfect for fans of Heartbreaker and Tiny Pretty Things. Ballet is Aisha's life. So when she's denied yet another lead at her elite academy because she doesn't look the part, she knows something has to change-the constant discrimination is harming her mental health....
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Telepathic mathematicians. Chess- playing dragons. Bogeyman night club owners. Talking mice. The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and to protect humanity from them. Verity Price is just trying to do her job, keeping the native cryptic population of Manhattan from getting into trouble, and doing a little ballroom dancing on the side. But her tenure on the East Coast is coming...
9) Fancy Dancer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful, poignant novel of love, redemption, and family secrets from the incomparable #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels...
On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends...
On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 42
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Jessi is thrilled when she earns the lead in her dance school's ballet, but someone does not want her in the show and the Baby-sitters club intends to find out who it is.
12) Take the lead
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Named one of the Best Romances of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post! A 2018 RITAA® winner for Best First Book! A sparkling debut. -Entertainment Weekly Vibrantly written. -The Washington Post The first in a sizzling new series about finding love on and off the dance floor from #OwnVoices author Alexis Daria. Gina Morales wants to win. It's her fifth season on The Dance Off, a top-rated network TV celebrity dance competition, and...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Now, they both teach in the family dance studio. When a suspicious accident occurs right before a big performance, the balance of sisterhood is threatened and family tensions rise.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound. Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone...
17) Swing time
Author
Language
English
Description
"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties,...
18) A family affair
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a city built on dreams, Trisha Holiday makes her living moving like one. But out of her dancer's costume, she's as down-to-earth as they come. That's why she ignores the admiring note--and the accompanying $1000 bill--that arrives backstage after one of her ethereal performances. Yet the sender, a wealthy foreign prince, isn't easily dissuaded. Seven years living and studying in the United States have made Malik long for the freedom to choose...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of a remarkable pioneer, who was the first African American prima ballerina in the Metropolitan Opera, in a time when racial segregation was widespread in the United States.
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