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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
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"Best friends Rasheeda and Monique are both good girls. For Sheeda, that means keeping her friends close and following her deeply religious and strict aunt’s every rule. For Mo, that means not making waves in the prestigious and mostly White ballet intensive she’s been accepted to. But what happens when Sheeda catches the eye of Mo’s older brother, and the invisible racial barriers to Mo’s success as a ballerina turn out to be not so invisible?...
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Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly, but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Tallulah is frustrated because the grownups will not let her try dancing in toe shoes yet, so she sneaks a pair out of the wastebasket and tries on her own.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 4
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Tallulah's thrilled to play a mouse in a professional production of The Nutcracker and works very hard to be the most marvelous mouse of all, but opening night brings some surprises.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 2
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tallulah strives for perfection during ballet class and dreams of dancing a solo in the upcoming recital, but her little brother Beckett, who misbehaves all during class, gets a better role than she does.
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Series
Brokenhearted novels volume 2
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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2021.
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English
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To help save for her elite ballet academy tryouts, Noelle accompanies her favorite babysitting clients on their Christmas holiday, and when their son Wyatt unexpectedly arrives Noelle keeps accidentally stepping on his toes despite him being the pas de deux partner of her dreams.
Noelle Partridge the best ballet dancer, babysitter, and person with the most Christmas spirit in her small town. When her favorite babysitting clients ask her to accompany...
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Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices with Marley Dias
Coretta Scott King Award Winners
Three, Four Tell Me More: Sparkle and Shine
Coretta Scott King Award Winners
Three, Four Tell Me More: Sparkle and Shine
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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. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
16) Nutcracked
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Being cast as Clara in the Nutcracker ballet is a dream come true for Georgie but when she finds herself sucked into the Nutcracker's world her dream becomes more real than she ever imagined.
18) The new class
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Ballet bunnies (Reddy) volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Millie's excitement over her first ballet class fades when she learns how hard it is, but after class she is encouraged by the Ballet Bunnies that secretly live in the studio.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Devastated when her dream of becoming a professional ballerina falls through, seventeen-year-old Harper Scott takes a job as a research assistant, wintering over at McMurdo, a U.S. science station at the tip of Antarctica where, for the first time, she considers other possible futures.
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