Hannah Ward, nineteen, revels in the competition, intense rehearsals, and dazzling performances that come with being a member of Manhattan Ballet Company's corps de ballet, but after meeting handsome musician Jacob she begins to realize there could be more to her life.
Passionate about ballet, Ditty Cohen signs up for dance class despite being forbidden to by her Orthodox Jewish parents, then must face the consequences when the two worlds collide after five and a half years of study.
Come a Stranger (Lions Teen Tracks S.) (The Tillerman Cycle, #5)
by Cynthia Voigt
Mina's deep love for a grown-up minister drives her to seek a way to give him an unforgettable remembrance, restoration of his faith.
Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the...
Welcome to the worst day of Nadine "Lady Six Sky" Durant's life. Just as she's getting used to the idea of a new baby sister squeezing her out of her family, her parents drop the REAL bomb--they're moving out of Parkdale, the downtown neighborhood they've always called home, to cheesy Rivercrest, a million miles away in the middle of nowhere. Is this a conspiracy to keep her from breakdancing? Are they trying to force her to break up with her boyfriend Sean, aka Ruckus, aka the leader of their...
Southpointe High is the last place Lucy wanted to wind up her senior year of school. Right up until she stumbles into Jude Ryder, a guy whose name has become its own verb, and synonymous with trouble. He's got a rap sheet that runs longer than a senior thesis, has had his name sighed, shouted, and cursed by more women than Lucy dares to ask, and lives at the local boys home where disturbed seems to be the status quo for the residents. Lucy had a stable at best, quirky at worst, upbringing. She l...
BTS: Top of K-Pop is the must-have commemorative celebration of the South Korean boy band that has taken the world by storm. Packed with fascinating facts, sensational secrets, glossy photos and a Bangtan-boy quiz, this book takes fans up close and personal with RM, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin, V, Jin and Jungkook, and follows their electrifying rise to the top of the global charts.The ultimate book for ARMY as well as new K-pop fans everywhere.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE: BIRDS OF PARADISE, STARRING KRISTINE FROSETH AND DIANA SILVERS. “A compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until the very last stunning turns onstage and beyond. A dazzling, heart-wrenching debut.” —Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us Would you die for the Prize? Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained since childhood at the Paris Opera Ballet School, where they’ve forged an inseparabl...
A puppet master wielding a dark curse. A boy made of shadows. And a girl who must sever the strings and set her sisters free...Emberlyn is a Marionette - one of a troupe of hauntingly beautiful girls who have been cursed to perform until they turn to dust... When another one of her sisters falls, Emberlyn decides she must fight back against their Puppet Master and free them from this violent dance. Whisked away to a new theatre, Emberlyn seizes the chance to escape, but instead brings dark secr...
GIRLS IN TROUBLE. That s what Sylvie Blake s older sister, Julia, renamed their favorite fairy tale book, way back when they were just girls themselves. Now, Julia has disappeared and no one knows if she s in trouble.
A debut young adult rom-com about an African American ballerina who finds love on the road to an audition. In a world where it's easy to lose faith in love, I Wanna Be Where You Are is a brilliant burst of light. A dazzling debut. -- Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out When Chloe Pierce's mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits...
Ballet School Confidential: The Complete 3-Book Bundle (Ballet School Confidential, #4)
by Charis Marsh
When talented, dedicated fourteen-year-old Georgia Slade becomes a student in an elite Toronto ballet academy, her confusing feelings toward one of her teachers lead to disaster.