Three complete adventures filled with action, romance, humor, and plenty of dance numbers. Julie, Lucie, and Alia are best friends and share the same passion: dance! Practicing nonstop, they're training hard to get into the Nationals. These three will have to balance competition, relationships, classes, and practice without letting things get out of hand. Complicating matters is their fellow student Carla, who would do just about anything to steal...

The Dance Class students prepare to put on a production of Swan Lake at the Opera de Paris, a ballet company that was founded by Louis XIV in 1669. But with such a big production, tensions abound in the studio! At this rate, can the show go on?

"Carla is accused of stealing the magnificent Snow Queen dress ahead of the class's performance, and must track down the missing costume to clear her name and save the production."--Provided by publisher.

The world, the community, the family, the heart: these are the beautiful and complicated arenas in which our lives unfold. Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness. Yet if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotional muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, in other words, grace.

Raj is a down-on-his-luck dancer who is fighting to hold his life together. After starting up a dance class, he finds new hope with his students but soon must choose between them and a chance of a lifetime.

The author describes how she first decided she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how that dream carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to dance class in Boston to performing with the New York City Ballet.

"When her friend Meda fails to turn up for dance class one evening, 10-year-old Hilda is convinced that something bad has happened to her, despite Meda's family's reassurances. Unable to shake off her concerns, Hilda turns to her mother, Molly, for help. Molly runs the Jolly Bonnet, a pub with links to the Whitechapel murders of a century before and a meeting place for an assortment of eccentrics drawn to its warm embrace. Among them is Lottie. Pathologist...

"Vee's favorite story is the day she met her parents. When Vee was still a baby, they flew to China to adopt her and bring her home. But when she struggles to keep up in Chinese dance class, Vee longs for a closer connection with her birth culture. At the same time, people in her community make Vee feel out of place in her own family. Vee wants to embrace every part of herself, but it's hard when she feels like she has to choose. With help from another...

From prima ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland comes the story of a young Misty, who discovers her love of dance through the ballet Coppélia--a story about a toymaker who devises a villainous plan to bring a doll to life. Misty is so captivated by the tale and its heroine, Swanilda, she decides to audition for the role. But she's never danced ballet before; in fact, this is the very first day of her very first dance class!...