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Angelina feels excluded when her best friend Alice and Princess Sophie become dance partners in an upcoming recital, but she soon discovers that having two best friends is better than having just one.

When her first sleepover falls the night before an important dance audition, Angelina confides in her diary that staying up late and eating junk food may not be the best activities for aspiring ballerinas.

Angelina is a pretty little mouse who wants nothing more than to be a ballerina. She dances all the time—at home, at school, even in her dreams! In fact, she’s so busy dancing that she forgets all about the other things she’s supposed to do, like cleaning her room and joining her family for breakfast! Her parents don’t know what to do—especially after her arabesques in the kitchen knock over the milk! Then one day they come up with an idea...

"Angelina and the other mouselings at Miss Lilly's Ballet School perform Cinderella on tour, battling homesickness and bad luck to ensure the show will go on"--