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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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It's been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions. Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can't understand how helpless she feels. With everything she's dealing with, Maisie is not excited for their family midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up. But soon, Maisie's anxieties and dark moods...
3) Crush
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English
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"Once again, Jude and Lucy are torn apart by football
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Seventeen-year-old Delilah Green is doing her best to deal with a chaotic life--she is running the family café, The Flywheel, by herself because her father is on a vacation trying to get over his wife deserting him; she is getting flack at school because she is a lesbian, and one of the "in-girls" has started to come on to her, and she is hopelessly attracted to a girl named Rosa, who dances the flamingo outside the café every evening.
5) Last dance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 520L
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English
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Rachel Deering, a 13-year-old aspiring ballerina from Miami, finds herself in the hospital, diagnosed with diabetes, and has to learn how to manage her disease, cope with being different from her friends, and wonder if she ever dance again.
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Dance trilogy volume 01
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English
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When new girl Caitlyn arrives at Coombe House School, Maddy is sure she must be a fellow ballet dancer; she certainly has all the grace and poise of a ballerina. So when Caitlyn denies it, Maddy isn't convinced. But it isn't until she comes across Caitlyn practising ballet in the gym that she realises there must be more to her story ... Just what can it be? Maddy is determined to find out!
8) Spin the sky
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Magnolia Woodson wants nothing more than to get her and her sister, Rose, out of the pitifully small, clamming-obsessed Oregon town that hates them-she just doesn't know how. Forced to put up with the snide comments and hateful looks the townspeople throw at them, Mags thinks she's destined to pay for the horrible, awful thing her mom did-and that she's left her and Rose to deal with-until the day she dies. But when a nationwide televised dance competition...
9) Bring it!
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Shake it up volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
650L
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CeCe Jones and Rocky Blue, best friends, neighbors, and background dancers for the hit television show, "Shake It Up, Chicago," compete in a dance marathon for charity and work with the competitors at the Little Cutie Queen beauty pageant.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Franny barely copes with high school, having a crush on the school newspaper's editor, and practically being parentless, and then her sister, a promising ballerina, breaks her leg and complicates everything.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
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English
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"For the past two years, since attending a Choctaw Nation powwow with his family, thirteen-year-old Tobias has secretly been teaching himself how to hoop dance, but once his secret gets out, he must decide if he wants to share his dancing at the spring talent show"--Title verso page.
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