In their second term at the Royal Ballet School, Ellie and her friends prepare for an important appraisal of their dancing while also trying to get along with Isabelle, an unfriendly new girl.
Ellie and her friends rally to support Sophie, their fellow Royal Ballet School student who has failed her dance assessment and must decide what to do once she leaves at the end of the term.
It was Ellie's first term at the Royal Ballet School in London; but her studies, new friendships, and homesickness were overshadowed by the rudeness of her roommate, Lara, who was also struggling with the new pressures to succeed.
During spring term at the Royal Ballet School, eleven-year-old Ellie learns some important lessons about friendship when an old friend comes to visit and a new one seems to be keeping a troubling secret.
After moving from Chicago to Oxford, England, ten-year-old Ellie worries about making new friends at school and caring for her mother who has multiple sclerosis, while also preparing to audition for the resident dancers training program at London's Royal Ballet School.
