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Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
4) Brontorina
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.
Author
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
Description
"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?...
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
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.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Dancing queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Kylie Jean wants to be a dancing queen as the star ballerina in Swan Lake"--T.p. verso.
Author
Series
Ballet Cat volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ballet Cat and her friend Butter Bear have practiced a dance to perform for an audience, but Butter Bear will need a lot of encouragement to try the super high leaps.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 4
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Clorinda
Author
Series
Clorinda the cow books volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Defying the odds, Clorinda the cow follows her dream of becoming a ballet dancer.
14) Tallulah's solo
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.
Author
Series
Brokenhearted novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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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
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. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
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