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Two little girls attend ballet class and eat strawberry ice cream afterwards.

"It's almost time for the spring recital! But when Miss Lilly sprains her ankle, Angelina Ballerina is asked to be the choreographer, which means giving up the lead role in the recital.

Winnie is worried when her best friends Zoe and Vanessa enroll her in ballet classes with them, since she would rather go to the library and read like they always do.

When two friends vie for the part of Marie in "The Nutcracker," they learn an important lesson about friendship.

Rosie tries to make up with her former best friend and get into ballet class after the sign-up deadline.

Nancy makes the best of not dancing the lead in her ballet school's Deep Sea Dances show, but becomes jealous when her best friend gets a better role than hers.

Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.

When fifteen-year-old best friends Henry and Eve leave New Jersey, one for tennis camp in Florida and one for ballet camp in New York, each faces challenges that put her long-cherished dreams of the future to the test.

Although Alexandrea does not want to be a ballerina, her mother enrolls her in ballet school and she is chosen for the starring role in the school recital even though she is an awful dancer and suffers from stage fright.

When her grandmother comes to visit during the summer, Charlotte thinks she will be allowed to go to gymnastics camp with her best friend, but her mother and grandmother insist that she take ballet lessons instead.

A clash with her rival may end Rosie's dream of playing the leading role in her ballet class's production of "The Nutcracker.

Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club.

Alexandrea does not want to be a beautiful ballerina and she definitely does not want to move.

Angelina insists she wants Anya, a mouseling visiting from Dacovia for the summer, to stay at her house and share her room, but Angelina's feelings change when Anya begins getting too much attention.

"Zoe thought that being cut from her ballet program was the worst thing that could happen, but when her best friend Olivia is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Zoe quickly learns that not being able to dance is the least of her problems"--Provided by publisher.