Nancy Ohlin

"From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Alicia Alonso, a world-renowned prima ballerina from Cuba. Alicia was born to dance. From the moment she slips on pointe shoes for the first time, she's determined to become a professional ballerina. A few years later, Alicia moves from Cuba to the United States to follow her dreams. Then, Alicia begins to lose her sight. How can a ballerina dance...

"Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh because they think she is small and weak. Then her teacher takes the class on a trip to a mountain. It's bigger than any Junko's ever seen, but she is determined to make it to the top. Ganbatte, her teacher tells her. Do your best. After that first trip, Junko becomes a mountaineer in body and spirit. She climbs snowy mountains, rocky mountains, and even faraway mountains outside of her...

When Tess transfers to New England's premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey, she quickly falls for mysterious, brooding Max but Max is still mourning the death of his girlfriend, Becca, and Becca's ghost is not quite ready to let him go.

Princess Ana is torn between hiding her natural beauty at home, so that her vain mother will not feel threatened, and trying to be as beautiful as she can at her boarding school, in order to be accepted by the other girls.

"Is Sunshine Griffith who she thinks she is? Now that her luiseach powers are fully awakened, and having barely survived an abyss full of demons at the end of Book Two, Sunshine must figure out whoor whathas been organizing the forces of darkness against her. Thanks to her brainiac boyfriend, Nolan, they not only unearth that Sunshine's death would trigger a calamitous event, but that all civilization depends on her survival. So when an unexpected...

Iris just wants to get through her first day of school without a panic attack. The last thing she expects is to be taken in by a coven of three witches-- Greta, Ridley, and Binx. They may be the first witches Iris has met, but their coven is not alone in their small northwestern town. The Triad is the other coven at their school, and they use spells to punish their exes or break up happy couples for fun-- and practice dark magic. When one of their...

"In this sequel, the two covens work together, and harder than ever, to fight against the New Order, a rising anti-magic group that's sprung up in their hometown." --