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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.
43) Harbor nocturne
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"In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law amid the investigation of a horrifying human-trafficking ring. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed as the two are caught in the crosshairs of...
44) I am a dancer
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This book illustrates how children's expressions of movement make them dancers.
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Matilda 'Tilly' Castillo gets injured senior year, and she's sure her dreams of becoming a contemporary dancer have slipped away. When she gets a chance to spend the summer with a New York dance troupe, nothing can stop her from saying yes. Her mother sets two conditions: Tilly will regularly visit her abuela in New Jersey; and, after the summer, she'll give up dancing and go off to college. She meet Sabrina Wolfrik, who also intends to succeed at...
47) Dances: a novel
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Promoted to principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, Cece Cordell, a young black woman, still feels like she doesn't belong, and, despite her dream achievement, is faced with a choice that may derail her career, sending her on a pilgrimage to find her missing older brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the pursuit of her art.
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An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine, while the illusions that obscure humanity's...
55) Shall We Dance?
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Shannon Murphy has just found out she has two sisters she never knew and now the three are living together above her dance studio in Bridgeport. Dylan Lange is a policeman with a new partner, a big brother trying to help his little sister, and a loser of a bet with his buddies. Now as a result of the loss, he has to take dance lessons. But when he walks into the dance studio, Shannon is the last person he expected to find.
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The Dance Fairies' magic ribbons are missing! Without them, all kinds of dances are getting off on the wrong foot. Everyone is miserable, except for Jack Frost and his goblins. They have the ribbons ... and it's up to Rachel and Kirsty to get them back! Beautiful ballets everywhere are turning into a total mess. Can Bethany the Ballet Fairy track down her ribbon? Or will the goblins dance away with it? Find the magic ribbon in each book, and help...