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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Selected to perform as the Queen of the Wilis in the ballet, Giselle, Dawn Hayes is determined to prove to the other dancers that she is the most worthy of a professional career in ballet. Her dance teacher has trained her up to this point to use her body as it was meant to be—to show off its lines and curves of delicate bone beneath taut skin gracefully. The unspoken essence of classical ballet was taught as a set of purposeful movements aimed...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bree Camden is helplessly in love with her longtime best friend and extremely hot NFL legend, Nathan Donelson. The only problem is that he clearly sees her as a best friend with no romantic potential, and the last thing Bree wants is to ruin their relationship. In any case, she has other things to worry about. After a car accident ended her chance at becoming a professional ballerina, Bree changed paths and now owns her own dance studio, with big...
6) This is it
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young dancer finds confidence in herself in this picture book about dance, individuality, and self expression.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Profiles the life and career of the professional ballerina, covering from when she began dance classes at age thirteen in an after-school community center through becoming the only African American soloist dancing with the American Ballet Theatre.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Now, they both teach in the family dance studio. When a suspicious accident occurs right before a big performance, the balance of sisterhood is threatened and family tensions rise.
13) Leap!
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Maisie feels hopeless after a leg injury causes her to quit ballet and is not excited for a family midwinter road trip near the Native American community where her mother grew up. She pretends to be strong but on the inside her anxieties and dark moods hurt as much as the pain in her knee.
16) Black swan
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Striking a deal with the river of blood to take center stage in the Parisian ballet, Black dancer Laure gains everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward until she discovers, despite her vicious desires, she isn’t the only monster around.
Author
Series
Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 4
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Alicia Alonso, world-renowned prima ballerina.
20) Dances: a novel
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Promoted to principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, Cece Cordell, a young black woman, still feels like she doesn't belong, and, despite her dream achievement, is faced with a choice that may derail her career, sending her on a pilgrimage to find her missing older brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the pursuit of her art.
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