ballet

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.

Pinkalicious is excited to go to ballet class with her best friend, Alison, but there is a mix-up and she ends up in the big kids' class.

Looks at the lives of the greatest ballet performers, composers, and choreographers across the centuries, and analyzes the story and staging of more than seventy famous ballets.

Introduces readers to the sport of dance.

"Barbie and her friend Daisy can't wait for their ballet recital. But when paint spills on their costumes and the electricity goes out, Daisy thinks their recital will be a disaster! With help from Barbie and her friends, can Daisy put a different spin on things to have the most amazing recital ever?"--From the publisher's web site.