Meet the Sugar Plum Ballerinas
At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers learn to
chassé, plié, and jeté with their Sugar Plum Sisters--but things
don't always go to plan! As the girls encounter challenges both on and
off stage, they'll need the support of their classmates to carry them
through with aplomb.
Readers will applaud the first two books in this beloved, New York
Times best-selling series celebrating friendship, creativity, and most
of all, dance.*
Plum Fantastic*Alexandrea Petrakova Johnson does not want to be a
beautiful ballerina, and she does not want to leave her friends in Apple
Creek. It's hard enough when her ballet-crazy mother moves the family to
Harlem, but when Al is chosen to star in the Nutcracker School of
Ballet's big recital, she'll have to contend with her terrible dancing
and a rotten case of stage fright! Can her new classmates help her find
her inner Sugar Plum Fairy?
Toeshoe TroubleBrenda Black prides herself on her logical and orderly
mind. She studies anatomy books and idolizes Leonardo da Vinci. Things
go haywire, though, when her spoiled cousin Tiffany comes to visit. Sick
and tired of Tiffany's bragging, Brenda snaps and says she owns an
autographed pair of famous toe shoes. It's a ballet slipper-y slope as
the lie gets out of hand, and she'll need her Sugar Plum Sisters to help
get her back en pointe!