Designs by Isabelle

By Anna Kmet, Laurence Yep

Subjects: Costume design, fiction, Ballet dancing, Girls, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Nutcracker (Choreographic work), Sisters, fiction, Sisters, Juvenile fiction, Fashion design, Ballet, fiction

Description: As Isabelle rehearses for *The Nutcracker*, she struggles with her pirouettes, in part because her castmate Renata points out her *every* mistake. Isabelle takes her mind off her troubles by helping to design costumes for the other dancers. She's distracted, too, by her older sister, Jade, who seems moody and withdrawn. When Isabelle figures out the problem, can she tap into her design skills to find a solution for Jade? And can Isabelle find the confidence to tune out Renata and polish her own performance, too?