No way ballet
5 total works
Eleven-year-old Emma slights her new friends in the suburbs because she is excited about seeing her recently divorced father during her ballet class's field trip to Manhattan to see "The Nutcracker," but several disappointments help her put her new life in a better perspective.
Three girls become friends when they skip ballet class and spend a calamity-filled afternoon in a shopping mall.
When her father loses his job and plunges her family into a financial crisis, eleven-year-old Lindsey enlists the help of her faithful friends in several moneymaking schemes so she can afford the costume for their upcoming ballet recital.
Hoping to impress an older ballet student and gain the attention of her busy parents, eleven-year-old Emma lies about her ability to dance on pointe.
When ten-year-old Lindsey worries that she may have to go to live with an aunt in Boston and leave her widowed father alone, her friends from school and ballet class support her in various ways.