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1) Ballet shoes
Author
Series
Shoes volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.
2) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.
3) Ballet shoes
Series
Publisher
BBC Enterprises
Pub. Date
c1975
Language
English
Description
Adopted as babies by the extraordinary Great Uncle Matthew, Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil lead a sheltered life with their guardian, Sylvia, who struggling to make ends meet, is forced to take in lodgers. When the girls are accepted to Ballet school, life becomes a whirl of classes and rehearsals until yet another financial crisis threatens their future.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A girl explores her love of dancing and her cultural identity in a lively picture book with echoes of the real-life collaboration between Bharatanatyam icon Rukmini Devi Arundale and ballerina Anna Pavlova. Paro comes from a dancing family. At home, she dances Bharatanatyam with her mom, and now she's excited to learn ballet. But what if she can't dance like the other kids in her class? Ballerinas move like fairies, while Bharatanatyam dancers seem...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell takes you on a captivating journey to a faraway land of ballet and magic, the wonderful world of Enchantia! The first of a sparkly new series for all young girls who dream of being a ballerina, or simply love to dance...
Delphie's greatest dream is to become a ballerina, and she can't quite believe it when she is invited to join the new ballet school. But there's more to Madame Zarakova's than it at first seems and with...
Author
Series
Shoes volume 1
Publisher
Orion Children's
Pub. Date
2007, c2004
Language
English
Description
This dance story follows the three Fossil children - Pauline, Petrova and Posy - through ballet school and the battles they have to face to realize their ambitions. The author also wrote "Apple Bough", "The Circus is Coming", "Curtain Up", "The Painted Garden" and "The Growing Summer".
Author
Series
Publisher
Quarto Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Cinderella wants more than anything to take lessons at the new dance school in the village, but she doesn't have any ballet shoes. Will her dreams ever come true? Learn about kindness in this original story about Cinderella and her fairytale friends." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Now, they both teach in the family dance studio. When a suspicious accident occurs right before a big performance, the balance of sisterhood is threatened and family tensions rise.
Ballet flows through their veins; Dara and Marie Durant were homeschooled and trained by their mother. Decades later the Durant School of Dance is theirs. The two sisters, together with Charlie, Dara's husband...
14) Far to go
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Margaret Thursday, the unforgettable heroine of Thursday's Child stars in this classic children's adventure from Noel Streatfeild, the beloved author of Ballet Shoes. When Margaret Thursday lands a role as a child actress at a well-known London theatre, becoming famous almost overnight, news of her success reaches her bitter enemy, the matron of her old orphanage. Margaret knows that Matron is set on revenge, but she keeps her head held high, focusing...
15) Belinda in Paris
Author
Series
Belinda the ballerina volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When Belinda's magnificently large ballet shoes get lost en route to Paris, she must find another pair before her performance in the Paris Opera.
16) Stolen Luck
Author
Series
Dario Quincy Academy of Dance volume 2
Language
English
Description
Kayley's had a run of bad luck. She'd been struggling at dance practice for a while, and then her instructor decided to give Kayley's next role to another girl. Even so, Kayley isn't ready to bow out. She has a plan.
The old ballet shoes on display at Dario Quincy Academy have a legend behind them. They're supposed to give anyone who owns them good fortune. But when Kayley steals the vintage slippers, she doesn't just turn her dancing around....
Author
Series
Magic ballerina.Holly's adventure volume 01
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Holly is given a pair of red ballet shoes by Rosa, little does she know -- they are magic! She finds herself transported to the magical world of Enchantia where she meets the beautiful White Cat, who promises to be her guide. It isn't until he goes missing that Holly realises just how important and special he really is. Can she solve the mystery and save the White Cat or is he lost in time forever?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dance your way to the magical world of Enchantia in the delightful fourth series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey Bussell! A mysterious package arrives for Jade -- it's a pair of red ballet shoes. Jade's curious, so she heads to Madame Za-Za's ballet school! and is suddenly whisked away to the magical world of Enchantia! King Rat wants to build a fun fair in the Enchanted Wood and throw out all the people who live there. Can Jade protect them from his...
20) Thursday's child
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Thursday was named after the day she was found on the church steps as a baby. But she isn't really an orphan - each year a bag of gold coins is left at the church for her keep. However, when Margaret is eleven years old, the money suddenly stops and her guardians have no choice but to send her away to an orphanage.The orphanage is worse than they could have imagined. The children are poorly treated and barely fed, and fearless Margaret soon...
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