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Follows the activities of a group of young students in their ballet class as they prepare for a show.

"From barres and ballet shoes to plies and performances--a step-by-step introduction to the magic of ballet"--

Although almost totally consumed by her ballet training and her obsession with controlling her weight, thirteen-year-old Delia finds time to worry about her strange and rebellious older sister Pearl, who has been sent away to a private school.

Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.

"Saturdays make Ada cranky because that's the day of her ballet class, and she hates ballet"--

Advice for young vampires who aspire to become ballet dancers.

When the Weather Fairies are asked to dance for the King and Queen, they create and perform a ballet about the weather.

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.

Inspired by watching a performance of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, a young black boy longs to dance and enrolls in ballet school.

I Watch Misha leap as if gravity were a law he decided not to obey, and I cannot believe the thought that jumps into my head, the voice that whispers in my car: Dance The Nutcracker, it says. You-midlife woman, you who have not been in a ballet studio you were twelve: Shake it up. Attempt the impossible. Take a Chance. And that's just what award-winning narrative journalist Lauren Kessler does. A mother of three grown children who hasn't had a ballet...