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Author
Series
Tiny pretty things volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet academy compete for the status of prima ballerina, with each willing to sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.
Author
Series
Ballet slippers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A visit from her Irish cousin during Rosie's plans for a special ballet performance proves that not everyone is perfect.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 6
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
Author
Series
Ballet sisters volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sylvie and her older sister dance their way through make-believe adventures that include princesses, fairy queens, swans, and ducklings.
Author
Series
Ballet slippers volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rosie plans to surprise her grandfather on his birthday by getting her dance class to perform "Cinderella," his favorite ballet.
Author
Series
Ballet slippers volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rosie tries to make up with her former best friend and get into ballet class after the sign-up deadline.
10) Someday dancer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In South Carolina in 1959 Casey Quinn dreams of being a ballerina, and though she has never had the money for lessons, she follows her dream to New York City and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
13) Swine lake
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hungry wolf attends a performance of Swine Lake, performed by the Boarshoi Ballet, intending to eat the performers, but he is so entranced by the story unfolding on the stage that he forgets about his meal.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the time she wakes at 8 a.m. until the curtain rises at 8 p.m., a prima ballerina's day is busy, busy, busy with classes, rehearsals and fittings, as well as meals and friendship"--
16) Baller Ina
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A rhyming picture book about Ina who is a graceful ballerina who also loves to get competitive on the basketball court"--
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mill Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Catty Jane was born to dance. When she's old enough, she enrolls at Mrs. Herron's Dance Academy where she learns that ballet takes a lot of practice. On her way home from class, the kitten meets Froggy, who shows her his vaulting and somersaulting moves. It doesn't look anything like ballet and Catty Jane tells him so. The two pals sit in angry silence until friends come along and suggest a dance party. Catty Jane wants nothing to do with that kind...
18) Dances: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she's promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She's instantly catapulted into celebrity, heralded for her “inspirational” role as the first Black ballerina in the famed company's history. Even as she celebrates the achievement of a lifelong dream, Cece remains haunted by the feeling that she doesn't belong. As she waits for some feeling...
20) Plum fantastic
Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Alexandrea has just moved to Harlem and her mother is pushing her into ballet and she has stage fright.