ballet

Young Nancy Drew investigate the disappearance of glass slippers that her friend, Andrea, is suppose to wear during a ballet performance.

"The Thea Sisters are headed to Italy for a ballet competition! But the mouselets aren't just there to dance; they are there to investigate. A group is plotting to rig the prestigious contest, and the future of their new friend -- an aspiring ballerina -- is at stake! Can the Thea Sisters stop this scheme before it's too late?"--Page [4] of cover.

When Epatha tries to spice up the choreography of the new ballet in Harlem with her free-spirited style, the rest of the Sugar Plum Ballerinas encourage her to keep her toes in line.

Brenda Black tries to dig her way out of a mess when she tells her bragging cousin, Tiffany, that she not only knows who prima ballerina Miss Camilla Freeman is, she actually has an autographed pair of her toe shoes.

Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year- old Allie goes with her grandfather to a performance of "The Nutcracker" on Christmas Eve, hears about the special day he had with her mother going to her first "Nutcracker, " and shares his loving memory of her.

An instructional resource for beginning ballet dancers, featuring text and photographs that illustrate positioning, barre and pointe work, attitudes, allegros, and arabesques; and including discussion of body conditioning and health.

Dora saves the big ballet show when scuba flippers are delivered instead of dance slippers.

"13-year old Summer so desperately wants to pass the audition for a prestigious ballet school, that she's literally starving herself. She's become anorexic and possibly killing herself. Furthermore, it actually is making her a worse dancer. Will Summer get the help she so urgently needs from her sisters Skye, Honey, Coco, and new stepsister Cherry, when she's in denial and doesn't realize she needs help?"--Back cover.

"One Christmas Eve night, Clara enters the Four Realms. There she watches a ballet that tells her the story of how this mysterious world of sweets, snowflakes, flowers, and amusements came to be. Clara learns the Fourth Realm is unstable, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger. But when Clara goes on a mission to save the day, she finds that while the story was beautiful, it may not have been entirely true. It will be up to her to change the dancer's tale of the Realms . . . and find a happy ending"--Provided by publisher.

Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.