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Rachel Deering, an otherwise normal 13-year-old aspiring ballerina from Miami, suddenly finds herself in the hospital, diagnosed with diabetes. Now she needs to learn how to manage her disease, and to cope with being different from all her friends. Will she ever dancd again? Rachel Deering loves-and lives-to dance. She dreams of someday becoming a professional dancer. When she is invited to try out at the regional auditions for New York City Ballet...

Follows the activities of a group of young students in their ballet class as they prepare for a show.

Angelina can hardly wait to perform her new dance at the Mouseland Dance Festival. She can't stop practicing all the way there, on her grandparents' canal boat, and she's so wrapped up in her great performance that she causes havoc on board. How will she ever be the star of the show?

"A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad-in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, poetic, and uniquely accessible introduction to the world...

Takes one through a day in the life of a professional dancer to experience what they do everyday.

At Christmas time a beautiful ballerina doll who longs to dance is discovered in a toy store and coveted by two little girls: Ilyana, who wants to love her, and Mary Jane, who doesn't want Ilyana to get her.

George goes to the ballet but his curiosity interferes with the performance.

A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team.

A story that follows the everyday life of two girls, one a professional ballerina, the other a student, both of whom love ballet.