"When Muddle the magic puppy jumps into a puddle, he and his friends Ruby and Harry are taken on a ballet show adventure. Can they help a new friend to put on a dance show to remember?"--Back cover.
Thirteen-year-old Kate leaves her home in Oregon to study with a national ballet company in New York City, but then she decides the life of a ballerina is not for her.
Aspiring ballerina Hijiri Masumi is chosen to stand in for the company's leading ballerina in a Moscow production when the girl suffers a devastating injury.
Masumi dreams of becoming a beautiful prima ballerina and has just won a place in the National Ballet School; however, a handsome foreign student arrives that distracts her from her goals.
Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
At Christmas time a beautiful ballerina doll who longs to dance is discovered in a toy store and coveted by two little girls: Ilyana, who wants to love her, and Mary Jane, who doesn't want Ilyana to get her.