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10 best books like Ballerina (Edward Stewart): Laura's Luck, Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina, On Pointe, Marie, Dancing, Dancer, Breaking Pointe: A Ballet Novel, Someday Dancer, The Cranes Dance, Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection

Laura's Luck
AuthorMarilyn Sachs
ISBN0595175902
We really enjoyed this account of Laura's 8 week stay at a summer camp. Nothing out of the ordinary happens, but we get to see 12 yr old Laura come from the city, get used to the outdoors, trying things outside her comfort zone, make friends and experience nature.

Laura likes reading and finds it...
Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
AuthorMaria Tallchief
ISBN0813028469
The definitive autobiography in a new paperback edition! "Maria Tallchief and American ballet came of age in the same moment. . . . Her story will always be the story of ballet conquering America. It was and is an American romance."--The New Yorker
  "Tallchief's autobiography provides us with...
On Pointe
AuthorLorie Ann Grover
ISBN0689865252
Our feet slipinto satin shoes

with stiff shanks,

hard boxing,

tight elastic,

and slippery ribbons

that wrap and end

in hard knots.

The frayed edges

are crammed

out of sight.

We stand.

A row of bound...
Marie, Dancing
AuthorCarolyn Meyer
ISBN0152051163
Marie van Goethem, a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer in the famed Paris Opéra, has led a life of hardship and poverty. For her, dancing is the only joy to counter the pain inflicted by hunger, her mother's drinking, and her selfish older sister. But when famed artist Edgar Degas demands Marie's presence...
Dancer
AuthorLorri Hewett
ISBN0141310855
Ballet is the most important thing in Stephanie's life. But the reality of dance is tough, and Stephanie's parents fear that she doesn't realize how few opportunities there are for black ballerinas. Then, the remarkable Miss Winnie and her handsome and talented nephew, Vance, show up in ballet class...
Breaking Pointe: A Ballet Novel
AuthorMiriam Wenger-Landis
"The people, the excitement, and the beauty of dancers were the story of my life...."

When eighteen-year-old dancer Anna Linado began her professional ballet career with the prestigious Los Angeles Ballet Theatre, she thought all of her dreams had come true. Company life offered glamorous...
Someday Dancer
AuthorSarah Rubin
ISBN0545393787
A ballerina tale with a thoroughly modern twist!

Casey Quinn has got more grace in her pinkie toe than all those prissy ballet-school girls put together, even if you'd never guess it from the looks of her too-long legs and dirty high-top sneakers. It's 1959, and freckle-faced Casey lives in...
The Cranes Dance
AuthorMeg Howrey
ISBN0307949826
I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night.

So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow...
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal
AuthorToni Bentley
ISBN0813027055
An irresistible inside look at one of the world's great dance companies, Winter Season is also a sensitive, intimate, and almost painfully honest account of the emotional and intellectual development of a young woman dedicated to one of the most demanding of all the arts.

Bentley's association...
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection
AuthorDeirdre Kelly
ISBN1926812662
Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection-- the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century, who often led double lives as concubines, through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers...
Holding On to the Air
AuthorSuzanne Farrell
ISBN0813025931
Suzanne Farrell, world-renowned ballerina, was one of George Balanchine's most celebrated muses and remains a legendary figure in the ballet world. This memoir, first published in 1990 and reissued with a new preface by the author, recounts Farrell's transformation from a young girl in Ohio dreaming...
A Very Young Dancer
AuthorJill Krementz
ISBN0394408853
Growing up, my sister and I took turns checking out this and A VERY YOUNG GYMNAST from the library. My mom eventually bought us A VERY YOUNG SKATER and A VERY YOUNG HORSEBACK RIDER, but DANCER and GYMNAST are still the best.
In the mid-1970s, Krementz spent months following 10-year-old Stephanie...
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography
AuthorAllegra Kent
ISBN0312187505
Allegra Kent joined the New York City Ballet at the age of fifteen and, only two years later, inspired Balanchine's unforgettable The Unanswered Question. Beautiful, sensuous, and mysterious, she quickly became an essential Balanchine dancer-and the story of her personal life is as dramatic as...
Ballet for Drina
AuthorJean Estoril
ISBN0590421905
I received this book from my cousin when I was quite young, perhaps about 8 or 9. I'm not sure how many times I read it as a child, but it was a favorite. I loved the illustration on the cover- the edition I had as a child was the Scholastic edition with the pink cover.

A few years ago, I was poking around...
I Was a Dancer
AuthorJacques D'Amboise
ISBN1400042348
“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”

In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers,...
I, Maya Plisetskaya
AuthorMaya Plisetskaya
ISBN0300088574
Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world’s foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey, presenting a unique view of the life of...
Blood Memory
AuthorMartha Graham
ISBN0333574419
this should be required reading for anyone who is seriously studying dance (especially dance history). martha graham is one of the most important people in dance history, and being able to peek into her mind is exhilarating. i felt like i was a kid listening outside a door to a very adult conversation--like...
While I Danced
AuthorLynn Slaughter
ISBN1613862598
By Lynn Slaughter

A nerve-wracking audition for a summer ballet workshop reminds fifteen-year-old Cass how much she wishes her mom hadn’t died so young. Her dad isn’t exactly Mr. Encouragement when it comes to her dancing, and he shuts down whenever she asks about her mother. Cass feels...
Black Water
AuthorT.J. MacGregor
ISBN0786015578
Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Fans of the Twilight Zone should relish MacGregor's newest offering (after Out of Sight); reading this spine-tingling suspense novel is like spiraling headfirst into the most disturbing episode ever aired. As Mira Morales and her teenage daughter, Annie,...
First Love
AuthorAdrienne Sharp
ISBN1573223107
Adam and Sandra are ballet dancers, friends since they were fifteen, and now lovers. Sandra is a dancer in the corps of the New York City Ballet who has just caught George Balanchine’s eye. Adam is an explosively gifted new star who has defected to the rival company, the American Ballet Theatre. They...
Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading's Ultimate Prize
AuthorKate Torgovnick
ISBN1416535969
Think cheerleading is just pom-poms, "gimme an 'R, '" and pleated skirts? Not anymore. Take an exhilarating trip through the rough-and-tumble world of competitive college cheerleading....College cheerleaders are extreme athletes who fly thirty feet in the air, build pyramids in which a single...
Dance Anatomy
AuthorJacqui Haas
ISBN0736081933
Powerful, expressive, and compelling! Now you can see what it takes to be a stronger, more elegant dancer. Featuring over 200 full-color illustrations, Dance Anatomy visually depicts the unique relationship between muscle development and aesthetic movement as never before.

Dance Anatomy...
Deep Sea Dead
AuthorLori Avocato
ISBN0060837004
Pauline Walks the Plank . . .

A confirmed landlubber, insurance fraud p.i. Pauline Sokol's never heard the call of the sea - or if she has, she didn't pay attention. But now the former RN is donning her nurse's whites once more to go undercover as part of the medical team of the Golden Dolphin - a lavish...
Ribbons
AuthorLaurence Yep
ISBN0698116062
If you asked her, Robin would say that ballet means everything to her.

But no one's asking Robin. Not her parents, who can no longer afford ballet lessons because all of their money is going toward bringing Robin's Chinese grandmother to America. Not her grandmother, a demanding woman who can...
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