Dillon, Leo.
Summary: In illustrations and rhyme describes the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2002
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Dillon 2002Davis, Fiona
Summary: New York City, 1956: Marion Brooks's college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs-- and she's feeling trapped. When she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-- the glamorous precision-dancing troupe-- she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DAVMeadows, Daisy.
Summary: Jack Frost and his goblins have stolen Serena's magic ribbon and all of the fun at the Wetherbury fiesta will be ruined if Rachel and Kirsty do not get it back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEAHolabird, Katharine
Summary: "Angelina is chosen as the lead dancer in Sleeping Mouseling. It's her dream come true! But she can't land all of the steps in her routine...will she keep trying and get it right before the big performance?"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN HOLSekaran, Shanthi
Summary: Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEKBéka.
Summary: Julie, Lucie, and Alia, along with Julie's little sister, Capucine, take classes at a local dance studio, where they study ballet, modern dance, and even hip-hop, compete with the arrogant Carla, and swoon over KT, the hip-hop teacher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BEKZgheib, Yara
Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ZGHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHHolabird, Katharine
Summary: Angelina is so excited to perform at the Mouseland Dance Festival that she doesn't help her grandparents clean their boat, but she ruins her dance costume and wonders how she will be able to make the show with nothing to wear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLIloh, Candice
Summary: "Ada" means first daughter, means oldest girl, means most pressure. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a historical Black college, it's the first time that she's been able to make her own choices. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past-- her mother's struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father's attempts to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ILOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC ILOBéka
Summary: Julie, Lucie, and Alia visit their friend Prune in London, and audition for the leading roles in a musical against their arch-nemesis, Carla.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Béka
Summary: Dancers Julie, Lucy, and Alia are delighted to begin working on a production of The Nutcracker in Russia, where a jealous Carla attempts to ruin the show.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BEKBéka.
Summary: Reunited when school resumes and preparing for an upcoming performance of Romeo and Juliet, ballet students Julie, Luce, and Alia compete for the affections of a cute lead dancer at the risk of their friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Béka.
Summary: Training ambitiously in hopes of being accepted into the National Ballet Competition in Paris, Julie, Lucy, and Alia team up against archenemy Carla while struggling to balance their dance requirements, boyfriends, and schoolwork.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BEKBéka.
Summary: Enjoying the addition of African folk dance to their dance curriculum, best friends Julie, Lucy and Alia are enthralled by the form's challenging style until problems at home and in the classroom place their dance pursuits at risk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BEKChoo, Yangsze
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo, a novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia that pulls the reader into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love, and a child and a young woman searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Jefferies, Dinah
Summary: An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise... A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-colored walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFLowell, Elizabeth
Summary: Chase Wilcox, a man of science and Nicole Ballard, a research assistant, artist and dancer (whose stage name is Pele, goddess of fire) are joined on a scientific project that carries them into the tropical wonderland of Hawaii. In the shadow of Mount Kilauea, all restraints will be broken, as emotions flow hot and free as rivers of molten rock. And desire will erupt, as unpredictable and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWMichaels, Fern.
Summary: "In a city built on dreams, Trisha Holiday makes her living moving like one. But out of her dancer's costume, she's as down-to-earth as they come. That's why she ignores the admiring note--and the accompanying $1000 bill--that arrives backstage after one of her ethereal performances. Yet the sender, a wealthy foreign prince, isn't easily dissuaded. Seven years living and studying in the United...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Michaels 2014Roberts, Nora
Summary: In "The Last Honest Woman," Abby O'Hurley hides her past as the widow of a notorious race car champion from biographer Dylan Crosby, and in "Dance to the Piper," dancer Maddy O'Hurley shows ruthless businessman Reed Valentine the importance of love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSmith, Zadie
Summary: "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2016Holabird, Katharine
Summary: Angelina Ballerina carefully prepares her special Berry Ballerina Cupcakes in the hope of winning a prize in the upcoming Chipping Cheddar baking competition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN HOLHolabird, Katharine
Summary: When Angelina decides today is Dancing Day, she brushes her teeth while practicing her pliés, points her toes while she eats breakfast, and leaps across the schoolyard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Holabird, Katharine.
Summary: A little mouse named Angelina becomes the famous ballerina Mademoiselle Angelina after much practice at Miss Lilly's Ballet School.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLLowell, Elizabeth
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002