Author(s): Whoopi Goldberg; Deborah Underwood

Junior Fiction

'Plum Fantastic': It's hard enough when Al's ballet-crazy mother moves the family to Harlem, but when she's chosen to star in the Nutcracker School of Ballet's big recital, she'll have to contend with a rotten case of stage fright! Can her new classmates help her? 'Toeshoe Trouble': Things go haywire when Brenda's spoiled cousin Tiffany comes to visit. Sick and tired of Tiffany's bragging, Brenda snaps and says she owns an autographed pair of famous toe shoes. It's a ballet slipper-y slope as the lie gets out of hand, and she'll need her Sugar Plum Sisters to help get her back en pointe!