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Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Trying to find a partner for the Valentine's Day dance, Greg finds solace in the fact that his best friend Rowley also doesn't have a date, but an unexpected twist might turn his night around.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chery Etienne has her own hip-hop dance crew, but now some of them are moving away and she will have to try out for her middle school's hip-hop dance team, although since she has never had any formal training she is not sure her unique style will be welcome.
Author
Publisher
Apollo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
If you could do anything you wanted, what would it be? Aliénor Salmon was working as a happiness researcher in Bangkok when a friend asked her the question that turned life as she knew it on its heels. A novice dancer but experienced social researcher, the Franco-British Aliénor headed west from Bangkok to dance her way through Latin America. As she learns eighteen dances, each native to the countries she visits, she engages with esoteric customs,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Mindy Aloff, a journalist, an essayist, and a dance critic, analyzes dance as the ultimate expression of human energy and feeling. From her personal anecdotes, her engaging collection of stories about dance from around the world, or her description of the captivating photograph by Helen Levitt of two children dancing, which she sees as one embodiment of the mystery and joy that dancing can evoke, Aloff's exploration of the aesthetic, social, and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips....
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces Capoeira, a combination of play, martial arts and dance, as practiced in the United States and Brazil, as well as its colorful roots in the African slave culture of Brazil and its history.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Millie bailaba jazz en su barrio italiano. Pedro bailaba canciones latinas en su barrio puertorriquęo. Era la ďcada de 1940 en la ciudad de Nueva York, y ten̕an prohibido bailar juntos ... hasta que primero una banda y luego un sal̤n de baile rompieron el Machito y sus afrocubanos llegaron a la escena con un sonido completamente nuevo, mezclando trompetas y saxofones de jazz con maracas y congas latinas creando jazz latino, m︢sica para la cabeza,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
There are so many ways to dance! You can jiggle or wiggle or stomp. You can bop or bounce or go completely nuts. You can dance at the market or the bus stop, with your fingers or your face. You can dance because you're happy or even because you're sad. But what's the best way to dance? Exactly how you want to! There are so many ways to dance! You can jiggle or wiggle or stomp. You can bop or bounce or go completely nuts. You can dance at the market...
15) Deer dancer
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl who is in a woodland clearing to practice dancing spies a deer and observes how it leaps and turns.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Young Julia struggles with the steps to the Afro-Puerto Rican dance known as bomba, but when she stops trying so hard and listens and feels the beat of the drums, she is able to relax, enjoy herself, and do the steps perfectly.
17) I got the rhythm
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On a trip to the park with her mother, a young girl hears a rhythm coming from the world around her and begins to move to the beat, finally beginning an impromptu dance in which other childen join her.
Author
Series
Rainbow magic. Superstar fairies volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rachel and Kirsty are thrilled when their fairy friends whisk them away to the Fairyland Music Festival! But the festival is a mess. Jack Frost has stolen the Superstar Fairies' magic music clefs. He's determined to be the biggest superstar in the world and the girls are determined to stop him! Oh, no! Vanessa the Choreography Fairy is missing her music clef. Now dancers are stumbling all over! Can Rachel and Kirsty help save the day and the dance...
20) Max
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1976
Language
English
Description
Max finds a new way to warm up for his Saturday baseball game--his sister's dancing class.
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