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