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Noel Streatfeild
1) Ballet shoes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.
Author
Series
Shoes volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mother's death, Rachel and her adopted sister Hilary are taken in by Aunt Cora, who runs a dancing school where Rachel's spoiled cousin Dulcie is the star pupil.
Author
Series
Shoes volume 4
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Curtains Up!
When orphans Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are sent to live with their grandmother, a famous English actress, she enrolls them in the Children’s Academy of Dancing and Stage Training–the same Academy that made the orphans from Ballet Shoes famous so long ago. It’s the chance of a lifetime–but the Academy won’t give the children the “proper education” their parents would have wanted. Still,...
When orphans Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are sent to live with their grandmother, a famous English actress, she enrolls them in the Children’s Academy of Dancing and Stage Training–the same Academy that made the orphans from Ballet Shoes famous so long ago. It’s the chance of a lifetime–but the Academy won’t give the children the “proper education” their parents would have wanted. Still,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A skating champion. An unlikely friendship. A fateful pair of white boots. Read the classic that has captivated generations!
It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson’s doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up by her wealthy aunt Claudia to be a skating champion. Although...
It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson’s doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up by her wealthy aunt Claudia to be a skating champion. Although...
5) Party shoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007, c1946
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Selina, a young girl who was sent to live with her aunt and uncle during World War II, receives a party dress and shoes from her godmother in America and, with the help of her cousins, finds a way to wear them to a special event.
6) Circus shoes
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Peter and Santa live a rather dull existence with their Aunt Rebecca, but when she dies they face the awful prospect of life in separate orphanages. In desperation they run away to find their only living relative, Uncle Gus, who works in a circus as a clown. Gus will only let them stay if they promise to work hard, and so the children plunge headlong into the circus world where they soon discover skills they never knew they had. But life is so different...