When the pressures of having good grades, good friends, a position on the dance team, and the perfect boyfriend become too much for Melissa, she turns to strict dieting to regain control.
After a beggar girl rescues the drunken, severely deformed French painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, he introduces her to his studio, the nightlife of Montmartre, and the cancan dancers at the Moulin Rouge club.
Contains over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of dance in the twentieth century, covering dance styles, choreographers and composers, dancers, techniques and terms, and companies and productions.
Briefly describes ballet and the achievements of some famous ballerinas, including Wendy Whelan, Sylvie Guillem, Nina Ananiashvili, Tamara Rojo, and Erica Lynette Edwards.
Jessie returns to the magical world where her grandmother was born, where she deals with some griffins, dances with fairies, and borrows something to help her dance in her school concert.