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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Marissa has always loved dancing. But lately, she feels clumsy and awkward when she dances, and she 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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Nancy Drew notebooks volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When the time for the big recital arrives, the tape of ballet music disappears, and Nancy has to use some very fancy footwork to get it back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Delighted to be asked by Miss Bird to help during a little dancers' class, an exuberant Mia observes that the little ballerinas in her charge have difficulties performing steps, a challenge that prompts Mia to devise a clever solution.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Longing to become a professional ballerina just like her older sister, Mia becomes jealous while on a class trip to the ballet during which her sister becomes so busy that she fails to notice Mia's own burgeoning dance skills.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Offering extra help to a newcomer in Miss Bird's dance class, Mia and Ruby are frustrated by Sara's determination to put her own spin on every dance move, a preference that introduces the girls to new ideas about creativity and individuality.
11) Brave enough
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Series
Language
English
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The lives of Davis Channing, a cancer surviving recovering addict, and Cason Martin, a ballerina undergoing chemotherapy, intersect in a powerful way at a time when both are struggling to survive life-threatening diseases.
14) Marie, dancing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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."
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
Language
English
Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
16) Turning point
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"Best friends Rasheeda and Monique navigate the ups and downs of a teenager's summer, Mo at home in the Cove; Sheeda at a sleepaway ballet intensive"--
17) Ballet breakdown
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Moving to New Jersey from Philadelphia was stressful, but at least Jada has found Ms. Marianne's Academy of Dance, where she can continue to dance ballet--but she is not sure that the other girls at the Academy welcome her, and when she sprains her anklein practice she is sure that the whole universe is against her.
18) 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.