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Author
Series
Publisher
Workman Pub
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
"Get ready to do-si-do in the barnyard with Sandra Boynton's bestselling, toe-tapping Barnyard Dance!--now available in an oversized lap edition! Join twirling pigs, fiddle-playing cows, and other unforgettable animals in their barnyard dance! With rhythmic rhyming text, this book is guaranteed to get kids and adults spinning, swinging, and prancing with the high-spirited cast of characters! It's BIG fun from Sandra Boynton in the big, big size of...
3) Powwow day
Author
Language
English
Description
Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 9
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant is certain that he cannot dance but his friend Piggie convinces him to try.
7) Ballet kids
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Thomas wants to be a ballet kid! He and his friends meet at the dance studio to take lessons from Mr. Elliot, their ballet instructor. The children stand at the barre and practice their feet positions -- first position, second position -- as well how to plie and releve. And then it's time to saute, or jump! Finally, the ballet kids get to choose their costumes for the Winter Show where they are performing The Nutcracker. What will Thomas choose?
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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...
10) I will dance
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Eva's cerebral palsy makes it difficult for her to do many things, but she longs to dance and, finally, her dream is realized. Includes author's note and information about Young Dance Company.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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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. She leaves her Chicago home behind to follow her stage mom to New Jersey. At the Princeton Academy of the Arts, Radha is determined to reinvent herself from scratch. Jai is captain of the Bollywood Beats dance team, ranked first in his class. He's an overachiever, but tight family funds means medical...
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Sunny Park, a seventh-grade student at Ranchito Mesa Middle who loves the K-pop band Supreme Beat, hanging out with her cool grandma, dancing when no one is watching, snacking on shrimp chips, and being there for Bailey, her best friend since third grade. When Bailey decides that she and Sunny should audition for the school dance team in a ploy to parent-trap Bailey's divorced mom and dad, Sunny agrees even though the thought...
13) Just dance
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When the magic mirror sends Abby and Jonah into the story of The Twelve Dancing Princesses to retrieve the crown ruby from the Kingdom of Douze, they follow the twelve sisters to the underground Dance Resistance Party where Abby learns she is not really a terrible dancer.
14) Lumberjackula
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jack is in a pickle. His lumberjack mom wants him to go to Mighty Log Lumberjack Prep to learn how to chop wood and wear flannel. His vampire dad wants him to go to Sorrow's Gloom Vampire School to learn how to turn into a bat and drink blood-orange juice. And Jack has a secret: what he really wants to do is dance. When he finds out about Tip Tap Twinkle Toes Dance Academy from new friend Plenty, Jack feels he's finally found the place where he can...
15) I got the rhythm
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On a trip to the park with her mother, a young girl hears a rhythm coming from the world around her and begins to move to the beat, finally beginning an impromptu dance in which other childen join her.
17) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team--a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics. They all have a lot to lose, but they...