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1) John's turn
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English
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First Grade
Kindergarten Recommended Reads
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Staff Favorites of 2022
Kindergarten Recommended Reads
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Staff Favorites of 2022
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"Every Friday, in the cafeteria, one of the kids gets up in front of the whole school and does something. A performance. Today it's John's turn."--Front jacket flap.
2) Black swan
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English
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A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
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Ballet Cat volume 2
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English
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Ballet Cat and her friend Butter Bear have practiced a dance to perform for an audience, but Butter Bear will need a lot of encouragement to try the super high leaps.
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English
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An exuberant and relatable picture book about sibling rivalry, ballet, and finding your free-form self. Confidence goes a long way, and so does practice--but the support of a loving family and community matters even more in this winsome tale of dancing your way into your own unique talents. Tessie has taken ballet for a whole month and thinks she has it down. If it weren't for her big sister, Maya, who seems to own the spotlight, Tessie would dazzle...
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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 company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kate’s, but who has recently suffered a breakdown...
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 company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kate’s, but who has recently suffered a breakdown...
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English
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Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. From ballet's origins in the...
11) Fancy Dancer
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English
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"On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends for their father's past neglect. At least, that's the plan. When their initial meeting goes badly, a distraught Jake crashes his car and is sentenced to...
12) Bea at ballet
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English
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"Bea and her friends have fun attending a toddler ballet class"--
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Vampirina volume 1
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English
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Advice for young vampires who aspire to become ballet dancers.
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Ballet Cat volume 3
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English
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Ballet Cat and her cousin, Goat, try to outdo one another while putting on show for their grandmother.
16) Glad, glad Bear
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Series
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English
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Bear is very glad about going to ballet class today, gets somewhat anxious before the music starts, then joyously begins to dance.
18) Ballet shoes
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Shoes volume 1
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English
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Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.
19) This is it
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English
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"A young dancer finds confidence in herself in this picture book about dance, individuality, and self expression"--
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