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Author
Series
Vampirina volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Advice for young vampires who aspire to become ballet dancers.
2) Ballet shoes
Author
Series
Shoes volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[c1937]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.
7) Isabelle
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Isabelle, who attends a performing arts school in Washington, D.C., with her older sister, Jade, has a passion for ballet dancing but lacks self-confidence.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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
Series
Ballet Cat volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
201.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ballet Cat and her cousin, Goat, try to outdo one another while putting on show for their grandmother.
11) Pointe
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Four years after Theo's best friend, Donovan, disappeared at age thirteen, he is found and brought home and Theo puts her health at risk as she decides whether to tell the truth about the abductor, knowing her revelation could end her life-long dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.
13) Turning
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
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
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Noelle Partridge the best ballet dancer, babysitter, and person with the most Christmas spirit in her small town. When her favorite babysitting clients ask her to accompany them on a ski trip over winter break, she packs her bags for the slopes. They are offering double her rate, money she needs for her audition at Beacon, an elite ballet academy. Wyatt, the older half-brother of her babysitting charges, decides to surprise his family for the holiday....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Kate and Marine, best friends and longtime students at the intensely competitive Paris Opera Ballet School, must decide what price they are willing to pay to win the only available spot in the professional ballet company that operates the school.
Marine Duval and Kate Sanders, longtime students at the Paris Opera Ballet School, share a bond forged by family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ballet flows through their veins. Dara and Marie Durant were dancers since birth, with their long necks and matching buns and pink tights homeschooled and trained by their mother. Decades later the Durant School of Dance is theirs. The two sisters, together with Charlie, Dara's husband, and once their mother's prize student, inherited the school after their parents died in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago. Marie, warm and soft, teaches the...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales sends Sylvie, a sixteen-year-old ballerina-in-training, in search of her runaway older sister amid strange happenings, such as a woman leaving a shoe behind while running.--
Julia Blake has disappeared-- did she run away, or is she in trouble? When a copy of their favorite fairy-story book arrives with a mysterious list inside, her sister Sylvie begins to see signs of her sister, and their favorite fairy tales, everywhere...
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