Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.

"Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy. Jessi's the busiest of all -- she's preparing for her dance...

Angelina loves to dance and wants to become a ballerina more than anything else in the world.

Excited to have a first boy student joining their ranks, the young ballerinas at Miss Lina's dancing school look forward to having someone to play the role of the prince in their recitals.

Bear is very glad about going to ballet class today, gets somewhat anxious before the music starts, then joyously begins to dance.

"Saturdays make Ada cranky because that's the day of her ballet class, and she hates ballet"--

Ballet Cat and her friend Butter Bear have practiced a dance to perform for an audience, but Butter Bear will need a lot of encouragement to try the super high leaps.

"When Millie loses her baller slipper at the theater after seeing her favorite ballet, she and the Ballet Bunnies must find it, with some help from a mysterious dancer, before the curtain rises"--

"It's Millie's first dance recital and the Ballet Bunnies help her get over her nerves and learn all the right steps"--

Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade 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.