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Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to your first day at ballet school! Put on your ballet shoes and let's master the basics with this book from author and principal ballet dancer Ashley Bouder. Learn key technique, then visit the costume room, before putting on your very own show of Sleeping Beauty at the end.
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Language
English
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Description
An amateur ballroom dancer is targeted by a serial killer in this riveting mystery by veteran John Lutz Mary Arlington only feels alive when she is dancing. The rest of her life, dominated by a violent boyfriend and a mother intent on drinking herself to death, isn't worth being awake for, but when she dances the tango her troubles disappear. She's gotten so good that her studio is taking her to the national competition in Ohio, where she will prove...
Author
Language
English
Description
"For the first time in decades, Lorraine Kindred has returned to the ballroom where she was swept away by the big bands during the 1940s--and by a star-crossed romance. As she takes in the magnificent energy and brassy sounds of her youth, the past comes to life, along with the fateful decision all those years ago that forced her to choose between personal conviction and social expectation, between the two men who had captured her heart. It had been...
8) Pointe, claw
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Language
English
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Description
"After eight years of separation childhood best friends are reunited. One is studying to be a professional ballerina, the other has a rare disease that is rapidly taking its toll"--
9) Dream dancer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Lily loves to dance, but after she hurts her leg in an accident, she wonders if she will be able to dance again--until she finds encouragement in a gift from her grandmother.
10) Honk!
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A ballet-loving swan wins acclaim when she manages to join the other dancers in a performance of Swan Lake.
11) Dancing Day
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Angelina decides today is Dancing Day, she brushes her teeth while practicing her plies, points her toes while she eats breakfast, and leaps across the schoolyard.
12) Brontorina
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Kelly Wilder becomes recently widowed from a much older wealthy man with whom she spent her married life doing charity work and building a lovely home. Now, with too much time and money on her hands, Kelly has absolutely no idea what happens next. So on a whim she signs up for a ballroom dancing class and slowly begins to rebuild her life with the help of friends old and new.
19) Marie, dancing
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Language
English
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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."
Author
Series
Royal Ballet School diaries volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Ellie's first term at the Royal Ballet School is filled with excitement, hard work, homesickness, an unexpected chance to perform, and new friendships, tainted only by the rude and hateful behavior of Lara, the girl she crashed into during their audition.
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