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Sugar Plum Ballerinas #1: Plum Fantastic Paperback – October 21, 2008
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Alexandrea Petrakova Johnson does not want to be a beautiful ballerina, and she does not want to leave her friends in Apple Creek. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop her ballet-crazy mother from moving them to Harlem, or from enrolling Al at the Nutcracker School of Ballet.
Life is hard when you’re the new ballerina on the block, and it’s even harder when you’re chosen to be the Sugar Plum Fairy in the school recital! Not only is Al a terrible dancer, but she's also got a rotten case of stage fright! Al's ballet classmates are going to have to use all the plum power they’ve got to coach this scary fairy!
- Print length160 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level2 - 5
- Lexile measure650L
- Dimensions5.19 x 7.63 inches
- PublisherHyperion Book CH
- Publication dateOctober 21, 2008
- ISBN-100786852607
- ISBN-13978-0786852604
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- Publisher : Hyperion Book CH; Illustrated edition (October 21, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0786852607
- ISBN-13 : 978-0786852604
- Reading age : 5 - 8 years, from customers
- Lexile measure : 650L
- Grade level : 2 - 5
- Item Weight : 4.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.19 x 7.63 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #692,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #453 in Children's Dance Books (Books)
- #3,284 in Children's Books on Girls' & Women's Issues
- #4,377 in Children's Chapter Books (Books)
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Deborah Underwood grew up in Walla Walla, Washington. When she was little, she wanted to be an astronomer. Then she wanted to be a singer. Then she wanted to be a writer. Today her jobs are writing and singing. Two out of three's not bad! (Okay, she also wanted to work in a piano factory and paste the labels on new pianos, but let's just ignore that one.)
Her dad was a math professor, and her mom taught English. Her sister got all the math brains, but some of her mom's word sense rubbed off on her, thank goodness. After college, she moved to San Francisco and became a street musician. Then she worked in an office typing memos for accountants. When the accountants weren't looking, she wrote screenplays. She found that if she glowered at the computer screen and yelled, "Criminy!" once in a while, everyone thought she was typing a very demanding memo and left her alone.
In 2001, Deborah decided to start writing stories for kids. She also began writing children's nonfiction. When a publisher asks her to write a nonfiction book, she usually doesn't know much about the topic. That means she has to learn fast. Now she knows about lots of cool things, like smallpox and orangutans and Easter Island and whether or not it's okay to slurp your noodles in Japan (it is).
When she’s not writing, you might find her singing in a chamber choir, playing a ukulele (very badly), walking around in Golden Gate Park, baking vegan cookies, or petting any dogs, cats, pigs, or turkeys that happen to be nearby.

Whoopi Goldberg is the the author of the Sugar Plum Ballerinas books, as well as Whoopi's Big Book of Manners, illustrated by Olo. She has won a Tony, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Grammy, as well as two Golden Globes. In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Whoopi Goldberg has appeared in scores of films and is a host of ABC's The View. She lives in New York and Vermont.

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Ms. Debbe, the ballet instructor, announces that there will be a drawing for the Sugar Plum Fairy dance. All the class is excited with the exception of Alexandrea. She is not interested at all and feels that her chances are slim of being picked, because she has the competition of 23 other students. But as fate would have it, she is picked to be the Sugar Plum Fairy. Alexandrea is worried that she won't be able to learn the routine and once on stage, she will make a complete fool of herself in front of lots of people.
When she watches her favorite speed skater on television actually doing a ballet routine, she begins to have hope. She will need lots of help from her new friends at the Nutcracker school. Alexandrea is having fun and bonding with her new friends, until she comes home one day to find her mother has packed them up after two months of living in New York.
Goldberg has done an excellent job of introducing this wonderful story of ballet. Moving to a new town and making friends is tough for anyone. This is a quick read and a hilarious story that young girls will relate to. The back of the book has the definitions of the ballet terms used.
At least twice a week, one of her homework assignments is "Reading Log" where she picks her book reads two chapters and responds to specific questions from the story. Each time she picks "Sugar Plum Ballerinas" and I am jumping for joy. Since she started elementary school getting her to read beyond when it was required for a homework assignment was a battle.
I've already ordered the final book in the series. While I'm sad to see the series end I am grateful these books have given my daughter the confidence, desire, and love for reading.
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