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Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 3
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Perfectionistic Jerzey desperately wants to be a good ballet dancer like her sisters, but her efforts to learn are repeatedly thwarted, until she finds help in an unexpected place.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Belinda, a tiny girl with enormous feet, is cast as a clown in her school's talent show she is very unhappy, but after each disastrous rehearsal she observes an older student ballet dancing, then goes home to practice what she has seen.
12) Miss Tutu's star
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Selena, who would rather twirl than walk, begins to study ballet and, after years of practice and a great deal of encouragement from Miss Tutu, finally makes her stage debut.
Author
Series
Very fairy princess volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown/Hachette
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Even though Gerry is cast as the court jester instead of the crystal princess in her ballet class's spring performance, she eventually regains her sparkle and once again feels like a fairy princess.
15) Bunheads
Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Hannah Ward, nineteen, revels in the competition, intense rehearsals, and dazzling performances that come with being a member of Manhattan Ballet Company's corps de ballet, but after meeting handsome musician Jacob she begins to realize there could be more to her life.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Emily, still reeling from the car accident that took her older brother's life and badly injured her, uses psychotherapy and ballet dancing to cope with her parents' decision to sell their house--the only place she can still feel and talk to her brother.
18) On pointe
Author
Series
Dance Divas volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Anya, Liberty, and Scarlett all think they'll be a shoo-in for the lead role of Clara in Dances Minnelli's annual production of the Nutcracker, but Gracie gets the part--and the pressure--while the others must be content with supporting roles.
19) Bunheads
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young Misty Copeland discovers her love for dance through the ballet of Coppélia.
20) Isabelle
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2014: Isabelle volume 1
Girl of the year. 2014 Isabelle volume 1
American Girl of the Year volume 1
Girl of the year. 2014 Isabelle volume 1
American Girl of the Year volume 1
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.