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Ballet Friends #1 Toe-tally Fabulous

 
 
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Ballet Friends #1 Toe-tally Fabulous

Book #1 in the Ballet Friends series.

Bianca Best absolutely loves ballet. She lives for ballet – but she’d rather live for ballet in Paris. She’s 11, the perfect age to attend the prestigious “Paris Pirouette” program for gifted young dancers. She has her mom’s approval, her boxes of new pointe shoes, and knows just enough French to live in a sleep-away school in Paris. All she needs is to complete fifty hours of pre-pointe ballet instruction by September first. Then she’s on a plane to make her ballet dreams come true.

But what happens when Bianca makes the best friends of her life the summer before she moves to France? Does she stay home and lose out on a golden opportunity to live in Paris and study ballet? And to make decisions even harder, she meets her four new best friends in ballet class at home, where she’s earning her fifty hours. There’s funny Megan Fields, who’s training to someday star on Broadway. Then there’s a sporty new girl named Jessie, who’s a naturally gifted dancer. And there’s also a shy musician named Lexi who shines on stage. Plus, there’s klutzy Kaylee, who definitely needs Bianca’s help keeping on her toes and staying off everyone else’s!

But how can a budding prima ballerina choose between studying ballet in Paris and staying home with her new “ballet friends?” Find out what happens in Ballet Friends #1 Toe-tally Fabulous.

Reading level: ages 8 to 12

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Product Details:
Author: Kitty Michaels
Paperback: 102 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: October 04, 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 143920019X
Product Width: 131.25 centimeters
Product Height: 200.0 centimeters
Product Weight: 0.26 pounds
Package Length: 7.8 inches
Package Width: 5.3 inches
Package Height: 0.3 inches
Package Weight: 0.25 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 3 reviews
 
 

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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

1Like Fan Fiction, Only Not  Mar 20, 2011
By Jessica Robinson "Jess R."
I received this book for Christmas, and while I am usually delighted with anything ballet, this book was beyond disappointing. The characters are all cartoons, from the rich girl with her McMansion (mentioned no less than five times) to the tough urban ghetto tomboy (whose characterization is downright offensive). The plot limps along and it's absolutely unclear how the characters go from being enemies to friends. And the discussion of ballet itself is entirely terrible. There's a lot to pick at, but let me start with the most obvious: learning to dance ballet takes more than a summer of lessons. This book perpetuates the myth that dancing en pointe is something that everyone can or should do.

0 of 1 found the following review helpful:

5My daughters love this series  Feb 21, 2011
By teen reader
This ballet series, Ballet Friends, is very popular in our house. Both my daughters read it and are big fans. My wife left a review for #3 before when my older daughter was reading these books for the first time. And now with my younger daughter (age 10) getting started with the series, the whole family decided that Ballet Friends deserves a good grade. We've been very happy seeing our daughters reading so much and enjoying these books. What we like about Ballet Friends and especially Toe-tally Fabulous is the amusing cast of characters whose every activity revolves around ballet. In this book the girls become best friends in ballet class while trying on toe shoes for the first time. My daughters practically live at the dance studio - so this is right up their alley. It's easy to read yet smart, funny, and age appropriate. With so many wonderful books in the series (and we have them all) there are hours and hours of enjoyment. Worth every penny.

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1It's a "No" from me  Oct 31, 2010
By Tammy Poole
My daughter is in ballet and starting pointe work...and she does not enjoy reading, so I found this book "hoping" that it would interest her. Well, she never picked it up (thankfully) so I read it to see if I should encourage her to read it.

In a nutshell: I was thoroughly disappointed. I am not going to go into detail, because I will probably be shunned for judging a book written for pre-teens and I'm a mom reading it....but, I always read the books that my children/teens read, so that I can discuss them with them (and see if they are appropriate) and this one was just "disappointing" to say the least.

Maybe they get better in the series. Maybe there is a nitch that this book appeals to. I can't see it. ANd it is not what I would want my daughter to read, so I promptly put it into our donation pile.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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