After breaking her ankle, Marta has nothing left in Billings except maybe her friends, but she decides to go back home and restart her career. While she works to keep rent, it seems that her mom has moved on from her leaving; she has a boyfriend and she was using Marta's room as an office. Marta works a variety of jobs to keep going: some at the local theater and some at Mrs. Holland's dance studio where she practically grew up. Her theater job leaves her in the company of a young man named Dennis. After Steve sees her with him, will their relationship recover?
When seventeen-year-old Marta finally enters the world of professional ballet in 1957, it is not what she expects. And when she walks in late without her clothes or bags because the train lost them, Madame Cosper, from the Intermountain Ballet Company, seems to hate her from the start. Despite her many setbacks, she befriends two fellow dancers as well as gets herself into a deeply complicated yet fun relationship with a college reporter. As her friendships grow and her life becomes dramatic, can she stay on track and continue to dance safely and keep her boyfriend from leaving her?
This is a fun and engaging children's book. A young boy spends his evening thinking about what he would rather be. He thinks of many imaginative things, both living and non-living, anything except a boy.
This is the first book in a series that takes place a few decades after the original Unwanted series. Featuring old characters as well as new, it focuses mainly on the twin sisters, Thisbe and Fifer. Both have extreme power in magic yet are not very adept at controlling when it comes out and how, making them a danger to those living in Artime. Their older brother Alex is constantly restricting them from advancing in their magical training for fear that they will hurt somebody like they had done in the past.
A nineteen-year-old princess who only wants to travel the world is forced into waiting for the winning prince in the games to be her husband. But maybe her stepmother has a way out. Maybe there is a way out of waiting for the strongest prince to win her. Maybe there is a way she can marry someone of value. Maybe it involves a sneaky, old, tired but kind dragon.
In the book Aaden Bluestar: The Awakening, Aaden Green is just an everyday kid. He goes to school, watches baseball, and has normal friends. The only thing particularly special about him is that his father is a senator. Everything changes, though, when he tries to get his baseball out of a tree and gets struck by lightning.
The Cilantro in Apple Pie, Kimberley Nadine Knights’ contemporary young adult debut, reveals 16-year-old Trinidad and Tobago native Rubie Keane's journey to Mellowbrook, Massachusetts, where Rubie’s older sister Violet and Violet’s new husband Dennis Peterson live—and where Rubie’s ailing parents decide she’ll continue her education at nearby private high school Lumiere Hall, essentially a feeder school for the Ivy League.
