About This Book

Puffin is proud to offer an exciting transitional reading program featuring diverse subject matter from mysteries to historical fiction to sports stories and contemporary fiction.

To Rosie, summertime means fifty-six days without ballet. Then she gets a brilliant idea. She'll stage her own performance of Swan Lake -- and be the star! But somebody else has identical summer plans, and promises to put on a bigger, better show.

"Will appeal to young readers who are beginning to enjoy chapter books". -- Booklist

About the Authors or Illustrators

Patricia Reilly Giff

Patricia Reilly Giff began her life in Brooklyn, New York surrounded by books! As a child Giff would prefer to have her nose in a book imagining the life of each character rather than playing with the other children. Some of her favorite childhood reads included Little Women, The Secret Garden, and the Black Stallion books, the Sue Barton books, and the Nancy Drew series. So it's no surprise that she knew early on that she wanted to be a writer.

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