ballerinas

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ballerinas

Dancing daze

2013
When her friend's sister wins the lead role in the Budapest Ballet Company's latest production and does not seem pleased, Amy and her aunt decide to do some snooping to uncover the problem.

One ballerina two

1991
A young girl imitates the movements of ten ballet dancers.

Life among giants

a novel
2012
When David "Lizard" Hochmeyer's parents are murdered he sets out on a path to recovery and finding his parents' killer as he finds himself surrounded by a wide variety of famous people.

Crash

2012
Lucy is new at Southpointe High School and it's senior year. The last thing she needs is any distraction of her long-term goal---to be a ballerina. Then she meets Jude Ryder, bad boy of Southpointe. He's got a real rap sheet that runs longer than a senior thesis and warns Lucy that he's the kind of guy fated to ruin the lives of girls like her. But Lucy isn't listening.

Twins on toes

a ballet debut
1993
Describes the experiences of twins Amy and Laurel Foster, who trained for ten years to become professional ballerinas and studied at the School of American Ballet in New York.

Evelyn Cisneros

prima ballerina
2007
An introduction to the life of Evelyn Cisneros, the Mexican American dancer who became the prima ballerina with the San Francisco Ballet.

Sugar plum ballerinas

toeshoe trouble
2009
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.

Tallchief

America's prima ballerina
2001
Ballerina Maria Tallchief describes her childhood on an Osage reservation, the development of her love of dance, and her rise to success in that field.

I dreamed I was a ballerina

a girlhood story
2001
A children's story drawn from the memoirs of famous dancer Anna Pavlova in which she shares her love of ballet, and describes what it was like to see Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" performed onstage.

Maria Tallchief

Native American ballerina
1997
Tells the story of ballerina Maria Tallchief, focusing on her Native American background and her rise to fame with the New York City Ballet.

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