Sugar Plum Ballerinas in Two Acts

Deborah Underwood

Whoopi Goldberg

Maryn Roos

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 TROUBLE
Brenda 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!

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