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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Marissa has always loved dancing, but lately, she feels clumsy and awkward when she dances, and feels bigger and taller than the other girls. She doesn't even bother trying out for the Rose Fairy ballet, but someone else thinks Marissa has what it takes to play the Rose Fairy.
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Series
Brokenhearted novels volume 1
Language
English
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Perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles and Marie Lu's Legend series, Amelia Kahaney's The Brokenhearted is a gorgeous, gritty, and imaginative take on the superhero story. Anthem Fleet, talented ballerina and heir to the Fleet fortune, has always been closely guarded by her parents in their penthouse apartment. Lured by the handsome and dangerous Gavin, Anthem is drawn into the dark and exhilarating world on the wrong side of town....
4) Dancing solo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Sarah knows that she is the best dancer in her class, and she is eager to show off at the upcoming recital--but when a new move proves unexpectedly difficult and she has to ask for help, her confidence is shaken.
5) Pointe
Author
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.
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Language
English
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To help save for her elite ballet academy tryouts, Noelle accompanies her favorite babysitting clients on their Christmas holiday, and when their son Wyatt unexpectedly arrives Noelle keeps accidentally stepping on his toes despite him being the pas de deux partner of her dreams.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.
10) Peeping Beauty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Poulette the dancing hen falls into the clutches of a hungry fox, who exploits her desire to become a great ballerina.
11) Rose sees red
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In the 1980s, two teenaged ballet dancers--one American, one Russian--spend an unforgettable night in New York City, forming a lasting friendship despite their cultural and political differences.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
14) Marie, dancing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opéra ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer."
17) The turning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Having learned to dance as a group and with a boy, the ballerinas at Miss Lina's school face their biggest challenge yet in a production of Sleeping Beauty, which is complicated by Regina's disappointment about her role.
20) Spooky ballet!
Author
Series
Agent Amelia volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Young Amelia, a secret agent, investigates a class of entranced ballet students, a scarecrow that can control crows, and a librarian whose work on the school library's computers seems to turn students into robots.