Look up the word “nerd” and you’ll find Lily Cooper’s picture. She’s got one goal: first stop valedictorian, next stop Harvard. Until a stint in the hospital from too much stress lands her in the last place a klutz like her ever expected to be: salsa dance lessons. Look up the word “popular” and you’ll find Stone Torres’s picture. His life seems perfect - star of the football team, straight-A student, lots of friends. But his family is struggling to make ends meet, so if pitching in at the Torr...
Dancing to Music: Let's Go Zudie-O (Dancing to Music)
by Helen MacGregor and Bobbie Gargrave
This book, which includes photocopiable pages, and CD pack offers recorded music for dance and movement, with the very young. The 14 tracks include Copland's madcap Circus Music", and "Air from a Distant Planet", Debussy's "Dancing Snow", Indian raga music and music for Chinese orchestra." Let's Go Zudie-o is one of two stimulating and creative explorations of dance and music for children aged 4-9 years. All the activities spring from World, contemporary and historical music and dance....
Dance with the Night (City of Virtue and Vice, #2)
by Susannah Welch
Deep inside the secret city, a young woman must hide the magic within.Ylena never felt so alive as when she danced in the Pageant beside Wilder. Until he betrayed her by walking away as the rest of the cast fought for their lives.Now she must perform with him again to appease the dangerous Wardens who rule the underground city.She is angry at Wilder for keeping secrets, but she has a secret of her own: she possesses all the magical Gifts. And the Wardens and High Priests will kill her if they fi...
A bold and emotionally gripping novel about a teenage Latinx girl finding freedom through dance and breaking expectations in 1980s Minnesota. When sixteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez pirouettes, she is poetry in pointe shoes. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio. But Rosa would do anything for one hour in the dance studio upstairs where Prince, the Purple One himself, is in the house. After her father announces their...
Speak meets Black Swan in this stunningly dramatic debut novel All that drama, plus pointe shoes? Yes, please: this is one book that’s bound to make a splash Theo is better now. She’s eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way to becoming an elite ballet dancer. But when her oldest friend, Donovan, returns home after spending four long years with his kidnapper, Theo starts reliving memories about his abduction—and his abductor. Donovan isn’t talking about what...
Addie is a talented dancer, a true-blue friend, fat, fierce, and driven. When she's accepted into the prestigious dance program of her dreams, she thinks nothing can bring her down-until she realizes she doesn't have enough money to go. Refusing to give up, Addie and her friends decide to put on a top-secret, invitation-only burlesque show to raise funds. But word soon gets out, and the slut- and body-shaming begin. Has Addie been resisting the patriarchy, or playing right into its hands? Perfe...
Twin Dangers (Dario Quincy Academy of Dance, #4)
by Megan Atwood
"Sophie and Emma are identical twins who have had a falling out. When Emma begins to receive threatening notes, she assumes her sister is to blame. Sophie denies it--and when Emma is sent falling down the school steps, Sophie sets out to discover who's to blame"--
What Lily Carter wants most in the world is to attend Princeton University just like her grandfather. When she finally visits the campus, Grandpa surprises her: She has been selected to take the top-secret Legacy Test. Passing means automatic acceptance to Princeton. Sweet! Lily's test is to find the Ivy Key. But what is she looking for? Where does she start? As she searches, Lily is joined by Tye, a cute college boy with orange and black hair who says he's her guard. That's weird. But things...
The Bell Family (Swift Books) (Evergreen Library)
by Noel Streatfeild and Shirley Hughes
If you love Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes,you'll adore The Bell Family.'Well, little people, what's the news?'Meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. Father is a reverend, Mother is as kind as kind can be. Then there's all the children - practical Paul, dancing Jane, mischievous Ginnie, and finally the baby of the family, Angus, whose ambition is to own a private zoo (he has already begun with his six boxes of caterpillars). And not forgetting Esau, a surefire com...
Tilly has been given an ultimatum from her mother— she can attend the summer dance program of her dreams in NYC if she puts her deposit in for fall admission to Georgetown but Matilda Castillo schemes how to get the best of both worlds. With her deposit in, and a deferment until next year, Tilly sets out to pursue her dream of professional dancing. But in the cutthroat world of dance, she may have made a few enemies. Matilda Castillo has always followed the rules, but when she gets injured seni...