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Swing
Audrey Meeker - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Paperback
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Debut author/illustrator Audrey Meeker playfully explores complicated friendships, gender norms, and navigating other people's expectations in this charming middle grade graphic novel. . Marcus McCalister wants to fit in. So much so that he's still playing on a soccer team with... |
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Leap
Simina Popescu - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Paperback
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A coming-of-age graphic novel following two dancers at a conservative performing arts school -- exploring friendship, first love, and what it means to fall out of step with your own dreams. . Ana has been studying contemporary dance since she was little, but her heart isn't in it anymore.... |
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A Whole Song and Dance
Sarvenaz Tash - Disney Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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Sarah Dessen meets Abigail Hing Wen in this heartwarming romantic comedy starring Nasrin Mahdavi, an Iranian-American college freshman who's a triple threat on Broadway - but who's living a double life.. It's her first semester majoring in musical theater at NYU's prestigious... |
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The Turning Pointe
Vanessa L. Torres - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and emotionally gripping novel about a teenage Latinx girl finding freedom through dance and breaking expectations in 1980s Minnesota. When sixteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez pirouettes, she is poetry in pointe shoes. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined... |
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When It All Syncs Up
Maya Ameyaw - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover
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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 Euphoria and Tiny Pretty Things.. Ballet is Aisha's life. So when she's... |
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Anything But Fine
Tobias Madden - Page Street Kids
Format: Book
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Luca Mason knows exactly who he is and what he wants: In six months, he’s going to be accepted into the Australian Ballet School, leave his fancy private high school, and live his life as a star of the stage—at least that’s the plan until he falls down a flight of stairs... |
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Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance
Nisha Sharma - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Radha is on the verge of becoming one of the greatest kathak dancers in the world . . . until a family betrayal costs her the biggest competition of her life. Now she has left her Chicago home behind to follow her stage mom to New Jersey. At the Princeton Academy of the Arts, Radha is determined... |
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Instructions for Dancing
Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with... |
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A Very Large Expanse of Sea
NOT AVAILABLE. - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature!From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice.It's 2002, a year after... |
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Sway with Me
Syed M. Masood
Format: Hardcover
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Arsalan has learned everything he knows from Nana, his 100-year-old great-grandfather. This includes the fact that when Nana dies, Arsalan will be completely alone in the world, except for his estranged and abusive father. So he turns to Beenish, the step-daughter of a prominent matchmaker,... |
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He Who Dreams
Melanie Florence - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book
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Juggling soccer, school, friends and family leaves John with little time for anything else. But one day at the local community center, following the sound of drums, he stumbles into an Indigenous dance class. Before he knows what's happening, John finds himself stumbling through beginner... |
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Turning
Joy L. Smith - Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In this raw, searingly honest debut young adult novel, a former aspiring ballerina must confront her past in order to move forward from a devastating fall that leaves her without the use of her legs.Genie used to fouetté across the stage. Now the only thing she's turning are the wheels... |
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I'll Be the One
Lyla Lee - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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The world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating confidence and body positivity - perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Julie Murphy. Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors.... |
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I Wanna Be Where You Are
Kristina Forest - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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A debut young adult rom-com about an African American ballerina who finds love on the road to an audition."In a world where it's easy to lose faith in love, I Wanna Be Where You Are is a brilliant burst of light. A dazzling debut." -- Nic Stone, New York Times... |
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Loveboat, Taipei
Abigail Hing Wen - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen, and praised as "an intense rush of rebellion and romance" by #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber, this romantic and layered Own Voices debut from Abigail Hing Wen is a dazzling, fun-filled romp. "Our cousins... |
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Tiny Pretty Things
Sona Charaipotra - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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Now a Netflix TV show! Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton, and the author of the acclaimed... |
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A Time to Dance
Padma Venkatraman - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Print book
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Padma Venkatraman's inspiring story of a young girl's struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning novel about spiritual awakening, the power... |
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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Michaela DePrince - Ember
Format: Paperback
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! The extraordinary memoir of an orphan who danced her way from war-torn Sierra Leone to ballet stardom, most recently appearing in Beyonces Lemonade and as a principal in a major American dance company. "Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born... |
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition
Misty Copeland - Aladdin
Format: Print book
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Determination meets dance in this middle grade adaptation of the New York Times bestselling memoir by the first African-American principal dancer in American Ballet Theatre history, Misty Copeland.As the first African-American principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, Misty... |
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The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy
Peggy Caravantes - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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A complete biographical look at the complex life of a world-famous entertainer With determination and audacity, Josephine Baker turned her comic and musical abilities into becoming a worldwide icon of the Jazz Age. The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy provides... |
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Kisses and Croissants
Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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and Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Sixteen-year-old Mia, an American girl at an elite summer ballet program, has six weeks to achieve her dreams: to snag an audition with one of the world's best ballet companies. But there's more to Paris than ballet--especially... |
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The History of Western Dance
Trenton Hamilton - Rosen Education Service
Format: Hardcover
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From soaring ballet leaps to the simple swaying at a high school prom, dance is the wedding of movement to music. It is a means of recreation, of communication--for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself. This engaging... |
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