Whoppi Goldberg (A) and Deborah Underwood (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Dance / Ballet / Stage Fright)

The first book of the award-winning and bestselling Sugar Plum Ballerinas series by Whoopi Goldberg—now featuring brand-new illustrations!

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 your’e the new ballerina on the block, and it even harder when youre chosen to be the Sugar Plum Fairy in the school recital! Not only is Al a terrible dancer, but she also got a rotten case of stage fright! Al ballet classmates are going to have to use all the plum power they’ve got to coach this scary fairy! (144 pgs) Ages 5-8