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"An incisive exploration of ballet's role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet. Ballet is an art full of hyper-feminine trappings, but beneath the ornate costumes and exaggerated stage makeup, traits like thinness, stoicism, and submission are valued above all else. Journalist Alice Robb spent years immersed in that universe as...
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English
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The story of Joan, a ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the world-famous dancer Arslan Ruskov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet Union to the U.S. While Arslan's career takes off in New York, Joan's slowly declines, ending when she becomes pregnant and decides to marry her longtime admirer, a PhD student named Jacob. As the years pass, Joan settles into her new life in California, teaching dance and watching her son,...
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes a nonfiction picture book celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage. As a young girl living in a motel with her mother and her five siblings, Misty Copeland didn't have a lot of exposure to ballet or prominent dancers. She was sixteen when she saw a Black ballerina on a magazine cover for the first...
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2011
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Excited to have a first boy student joining their ranks, the young ballerinas at Miss Lina's dancing school look forward to having someone to play the role of the prince in their recitals.
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Sugar plum ballerinas volume 1
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Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Girl of the year. 2014: Isabelle volume 3
Girl of the year. 2014 Isabelle volume 3
American Girl. Isabelle volume 3
Girl of the year. 2014 Isabelle volume 3
American Girl. Isabelle volume 3
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American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Ten-year-old Isabelle joins a ballet touring company headed by her dancing idol, world-class ballerina Jackie Sanchez.
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2021.
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English
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"Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a trio of ballerinas who meet as students at the Paris Opera Ballet School. Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg--taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine has returned...
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Page and Vine
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Maddie Stevens has never felt good enough. Not good enough to keep her parents' love. Not good enough to be independent and stop being her brother's problem. Not good enough to build the future she wants. When she injures her ankle before a ballet audition that could change her career forever, she's convinced her life is over at twenty-one. What's the point of having dreams when they can go down the drain at any moment? And because the universe has...
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Tending roses volume 4
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English
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A former ballet dancer, Julia Costell is unable to cope with the demands of a professional dance career and takes a job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school, where she meets Dell Jordan, a disadvantaged student of extraordinary talent.
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Having learned to dance as a group and with a boy, the ballerinas at Miss Lina's school face their biggest challenge yet in a production of Sleeping Beauty, which is complicated by Regina's disappointment about her role.
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In this haunting, lyrical fantasy set in 1930s Chicago, a talented ballerina finds herself torn between her dreams and her desires when she's pursued by a secretive patron who may be more than he seems. Grace Dragotta has always wanted to be a ballerina, ever since she first peeped through the windows of the Near North Ballet Company. So when Grace is orphaned, she chooses the ballet as her home, imagining herself forever ensconced in a transcendent...
18) Maria Tallchief
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Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A biography of Maria Tallchief, part of the She Persisted chapter book series. When she was told that she might need to change her Osage name to one that sounded more Russian in order to succeed as a professional ballerina, Maria Tallchief refused and worked hard to become America’s first Native American prima ballerina."--
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