Toeshoe Trouble (Sugar Plum Ballerinas (Quality)) by Goldberg, Whoopi, Underwood, Deborah (2009) Paperback

by Whoopi Goldberg

Paperback

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Jump At The Sun

Description

Brenda Black prides herself on her logical and orderly mind, but when her spoiled cousin Tiffany visits, Brenda tells a lie and must rely on the help of her Sugar Plum Sisters to help make things right.

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LibraryThing member CindyFesemyer
Though this is not the best thing I've ever read aloud to my kids, I really do appreciate the entire series as s whole. It stars a number of young girls, early tweens I'd say, who take a ballet class together and have some adventures along the way. These girls have backgrounds very different from
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one another--from super tomboy to frilly girly girl--and are the best of friends.

My girls like hearing about Epatha the best. She's the working class Latina/Italian spitfire who always cracks them up with her antics. Add in the triplets who come from a well-off professional Black family. Terrel, the middle class Asian know-it-all. Al, lower middle class of a single mother. And more.

With kids of color of my own, I'm happy to have this alternative to the norm to share with them at bedtime.
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