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Release date: July 17, 2012 | Age Range: 6 - 11 years | Series: Dance Class (Book 2)
The adventures of best friends Julie, Luce, and Alia continue in the second “Dance Class” graphic novel. School is in session again and this time the girls are working on a ballet of "Romeo and Juliet." When new student Tim is cast in the role of Romeo, the three girls find themselves competing for his affections. Can they get this production on its feet without ruining their friendship?
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Béka is the pseudonym for the writing team of Bertrand Escaich and Caroline Rogue. Before creating Dance Studio, the duo wrote stories for the children’s comic series Footmaniacs, Managers, and Formidable and created the hit series The Rugbymen.
Crip is an artist with a background in applied arts. He has drawn several stories for the educational comic series All About... and designs posters and logos for arts and music festivals.
My 7 year old daughter checked this book out at the library. I did not find this book appropriate for the ages it states. For example, there is a picture of boys and girls at a dance with one boy's hand on the girls breast, while another girl's hand is on the boy's bum. A page later, the girls have a conversation like this... "have you ever done it with a boy" that goes on further to state that a boy would probably dump you after so its best to wait. I found this to be a totally unnecessary and inappropriate for the stated audience and story line. After that, we were thinking maybe this was meant for tweens/or teens as we noticed on further inspection that the graphics are a little overly sexualized with a lot of large, perky and differing breasts on all of the girls. But no, this book is written for for 6-11 year olds and I just don't know another parent who would want their daughter reading this in 1st to 3rd grade. Basically, there are about a million other better books that don't sexualize girls or talk about 'doing it with boys' so I would recommend to pass this one by.