Pilar has social anxiety, but when tryouts for her favorite ballet are held she uses the coping techniques she has learned and her love of dance to persevere.

"Doris has always reveled in the warmth of a spotlight. Her whole life, she's danced the nights away, with friends from the only home she's ever known. But one day, Doris twirls ... out of step ... until she stumbles across a whole new kind of spotlight"--

Cats dance the night away out on the town, doing the tango, rumba, twist, fox trot, and more.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text encourage the reader to wiggle, shake, and twirl to the beat.

Jojo's grandmother Lola invites him to join her in the rhythmic tinikling dance, and though he initially stumbles, Jojo finds his footing and joyfully embraces his American and Filipino heritages.

"Diana is restless and can't sit still in class. She's having trouble with math, and her mother is worried. But when she takes Diana to see a doctor, they discover that there's nothing wrong with Diana--she just loves to dance."--

Boris receives dancing lessons from his friend Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus.

With a lot of help from his friends, Karhu the bear finally stays awake to tango, conga, and waltz the night away at the annual Mukluk Ball.

When Treasure helps Berry make cookies for Pumpkin's dance show by shaking magic sprinkles over them, the cookies spring to life and threaten to disrupt the show.

"In 1984 in the barrios of Newark, Beatriz Mendez is looking forward to dancing at her fifteenth birthday, because dancing is her true passion in life, but when her brother Juni, gang-leader of the Puerto Rican gang the Diablos, is killed by the rival Haitian Macoute gang she finds herself thrust into the role of gang-leader and drug dealer--until she meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing." -- 1984, in...