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About the Book

Madeleine's the newest arrival at the famed Dario Quincy Academy of Dance. She's worked hard to gain admission, and she's determined not to lose her scholarship. That means not asking too many questions when her antique necklace goes missing, and certainly not breaking curfew. So how does she find herself exploring the creepy tunnels that run underneath the school? As if rivals at dance practice weren't bad enough, Madeleine begins to suspect that there's an ancient evil on the academy grounds. And when Madeleine and her rivals join together, sneaking out at night to explore the school's depths, the evil might just follow them back upstairs.

About the Author :
Megan Atwood lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches creative writing at a local college and the Loft Literary Center. She has an M.F.A. in writing for children and young adults.

Review :
Ballet dancers become ghost-busters in this first book in the Dario Quincy Academy of Dance series, which is written at a fourth-grade reading level and set in a prestigious, potentially haunted boarding school. Madeleine faces challenges as a scholarship student arriving after the semester starts, but she quickly proves herself with her graceful talents. She and her new classmates bond during midnight explorations of the Academy's spooky basement tunnels in search of stolen keepsakes. Atwood uses a light touch to create pleasant characters and a suspenseful premise, never letting the sinister notes weigh too heavily on the proceedings. Future mysterious adventures await: Stolen Luck, The Cursed Ballet, and Twin Dangers are available simultaneously. --Publishers Weekly -- "Journal" Set in an elite residential ballet school, these stories focus on five students and their friendships, their classes, and the mysteries they encounter in the haunted old building. In the first book, teachers are caught holding cultlike rituals to ward off a curse on the school; in book two, one of the dancers, in a slump, steals a pair of antique pointe shoes from a display case in hopes of improving her luck, but she fears, instead, that she has put a curse on her friends. The plots are a bit far-fetched, but no more so than other popular mystery series such as those by R. L. Stine. The competent writing is suitable to the genre and will appeal to older reluctant readers. Characterization is strong enough to create interest in each of the main characters. The dance terms and ballet-centric subplots give the series special appeal to balletomanes, but they don't so overwhelm the story lines that they will restrict the audience. --School Library Journal -- "Journal"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781467714839
  • Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Lerner Publishing Group
  • Height: 200 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Series Title: 1 Dario Quincy Academy of Dance
  • ISBN-10: 1467714836
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 200 mm


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