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2) Dino-dancing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Dinosaurs compete in genres of dance from hip-hop to ballet to swing dancing and more at the Dino-Dancing Finale"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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A retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.
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[2014]
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American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
6) Frog Music
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"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he...
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"A Black teen dancer with dreams of landing a spot in a prestigious ballet company must learn to dance on her own terms in this explosive debut about the healing power of art and friendship, perfect for fans of Heartbreaker and Tiny Pretty Things. Ballet is Aisha's life. So when she's denied yet another lead at her elite academy because she doesn't "look" the part, she knows something has to change-the constant discrimination is harming her mental...
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"With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents’ death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara’s husband and once their mother’s prized student. Marie, warm and...
9) Swing Time
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2016.
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Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves...
10) Ellen Tebbits
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Third grader Ellen Tebbits becomes best friends with newcomer Austine Allen, who helps her weather the taunts of Otis Spofford and the trials of woolen underwear, but Ellen learns it is difficult to apologize even to a best friend after she says something that hurts Austine's feelings.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man out. A dance at Greg's middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner, and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside. So he concocts a desperate plan to find someone -- anyone! -- to go with on the big night. But Greg's schemes go hilariously awry, and his only option is to attend the dance with his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, and a female classmate as a "group of friends." But the night...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Three St. Patrick's Day themed novellas set in Maine feature Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell, and Julia Snowden all trying to solve suspicious deaths in unexpected circumstances.
Irish Coffee Murder: Part-time reporter Lucy Stone is writing a piece for the Courier about four Irish step dancing students from Tinkers Cove on the cusp of making it big. But the story becomes headline news for all the wrong reasons when one girls mother is found dead in her...
14) Fancy Dancer
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Finding himself in an awkward position when he is sentenced to community service--with his newly-found half-brother, Alex, as his parole officer--Jake St. Cloud decides to make the most of his work with Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at their foundation for neglected children.
15) I got the rhythm
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2014
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On a trip to the park with her mother, a young girl hears a rhythm coming from the world around her and begins to move to the beat, finally beginning an impromptu dance in which other childen join her.
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"There's no pussy-footing around murder. It's never too late to kick up your heels. Just ask Tina, Janice, Pat, Mary Louise, and Gini--aka the Happy Hoofers. After posting a video of their tap-dancing routine on the Internet, the leggy ladies find themselves booked to perform on a Russian river cruise up the Volga from Moscow to St. Petersburg. But when murder cuts in, the five fabulous friends find it's not so easy to tap their troubles away. A crew...
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Jellybeans books (Laura Numeroff) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2007 (new 2009)
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When four young girls meet in dance class, it takes time for them to find a way-and a reason-to pull together as one, but Emily helps them realize that, just like a bag of jellybeans, they can be different and still go well together.
18) Considering Kate
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Kate Stanislaski Kimball had come home to begin a new life. The only thing more perfect than the beautiful-dilapidated-building she'd bought for her new dance school was Brody O'Connell, the frustrating, surprisingly fascinating contractor she'd hired for the renovation. But Brody was determined to resist her effortless allure.
19) Small worlds
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track-a university degree, a move out of home-but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee. Now Stephen must find a path and...
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Flora books (Molly Idle) volume 1
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c2013.
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In this wordless book, a friendship develops between a girl named Flora and a graceful flamingo, as they learn to dance together. Includes illustrations on flaps which can be lifted to reveal other illustrations beneath them.