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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Angelina and Alice are so excited to spend time together at the beach! They collect seashells, build sandcastles, play in the waves, and dance! But then Angelina accidentally upsets Alice. Will a heartfelt apology and some creativity be enough to reconcile the two friends?
2) Swing Time
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves...
3) Frog Music
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"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In this evocative and heartwarming novel for readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish, the author of I Can Make This Promise tells the story of a Native American girl struggling to find her joy again. It's been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions. Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can't understand how hopeless she feels....
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Pub. Date
2011
Description
"Cloudberry Castle School of Ballet is finally open, and Katie Mackenzie's dreams are about to come true. She can dance all day, make lots of new friends, and be taught by a real ballerina from the Scottish Ballet. Then spoiled brat Leo arrives, with her pony and private chauffer, and Katie's dreams turn sour. Will she out-dance Katie to play the principal role in the Christmas show? And will a ghostly presence lead the girls to uncover more of the...
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"After narrowing down hundreds of Broadway hopefuls, Zach (Douglas) leads a select group of dancers on the tryout of their lives. In an audition twist, Zach asks each performer personal and intimate questions--with results that powerfully affect not only the young performers, but the hardened stage veteran as well"--Container.
7) Fancy Dancer
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Finding himself in an awkward position when he is sentenced to community service--with his newly-found half-brother, Alex, as his parole officer--Jake St. Cloud decides to make the most of his work with Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at their foundation for neglected children.
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A look at two Brazilian teenagers who feel the only way out of the poverty and strife they live in is to join a well-known dance troupe from North America. Determined to beat the odds and follow their dream, these dancers will do whatever it takes to break free from their lives, and into a new one.
9) Black swan
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
11) What We Become
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A dangerous and passionate love affair between an accomplished tango dancer turned elegant thief and a beautiful, intelligent society woman bursts off the page in this epic historical tale of romance and espionage that further establishes #1 bestselling author and Dagger Award winner Arturo P�rez-Reverte as an international literary giant. En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise...
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Deb, a former ballet dancer turned full-time mom, avoids acknowledging the infidelities of her husband Jack, a well-known New York artist. An anonymously sent package of printed emails chroncling Jack's secret life arrives, addressed to Deb. It is delivered instead into the hands of her children. Family members spin aprt into separate orbits, abandoning New York in an attempt to regain their bearings.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A tribute to the life of the iconic jazz entertainer depicts her disadvantaged youth in a segregated America, her unique performance talents and the irrepressible sense of style that helped her overcome racial barriers.
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer. Through talent and sheer determination, Li makes his way to the United States, but when he falls in love with an American woman, he must risk everything to remain in the U.S. Based on a true story.
17) A family affair
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In a city built on dreams, Trisha Holiday makes her living moving like one. But out of her dancer's costume, she's as down-to-earth as they come. That's why she ignores the admiring note--and the accompanying $1000 bill--that arrives backstage after one of her ethereal performances. Yet the sender, a wealthy foreign prince, isn't easily dissuaded. After a breathtaking visit to Malik's kingdom culminates in a marriage proposal, Trish attempts to adjust...
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"New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in...
19) Full dark house
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
When a bomb claims the life of John May's detective partner of more than half a century, May becomes convinced that the key to the killer's identity lies in his first case together with his partner.
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Set in the international world of B-boying - the urban dance more commonly known as 'breakdancing.' Weaving between the vivid backdrops of Osaka, Paris, Seoul and Las Vegas, unforgettable images frame the intimate stories of dancers who struggle for their dreams despite being misunderstood by the larger socieity and even their own families. An American dancer in Vegas looks for his big break; a Korean son seeks his father's approval; a twelve-year-old...
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