Dancing Daze

Ask Amy Green #5

by Sarah Webb

Mills's ballerina sister has just landed the role of a lifetime - but something is very wrong with the young dancer. A worried Mills begs best friend Amy for help. How can Amy refuse, even though she has big problems of her own to solve?

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction

219 pages, Paperback

First published August 16, 2012

About the author

Sarah Webb is an award-winning children’s writer. Her books include Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (illustrated by Steve McCarthy), both winners of Irish Book Awards.

Sarah also runs creative writing clubs for children and teens, reviews children’s books for the Irish Independent, and programmes children’s and family events for book festivals and MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland). She also works part-time in a children’s bookshop.

Sarah is passionate about bringing children and books together and was awarded the Children’s Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books in Ireland.
Her latest book, The Little Beekeeper of Henrietta Street (illustrated by Rachel Corcoran) was published in 2021.

www.sarahwebb.ie
Twitter: @sarahwebbishere
Instagram: @sarahwebbwriter

Reviews

[Hummingbird01 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome I have read this book 2 times now !!!!

[ஐ Katya (Book Queen)ஐ · Rating 3 out of 5]

The series is feeling a little old at this point. I wasn't into the ballet theme.

One of my progress reading notes: "This is bugging me. Clover is underage at 17, yet her magazine Goss flies her first class to Miami, Paris now Bucharest unaccompanied from Dublin. For Miami, Clover traded in her first class ticket for 2 regular tickets to take Amy with her. Now for Paris and Bucharest, the magazine is buying them BOTH tickets. Clover is 17, Amy is 13, and they are flying and staying alone. Sorry, but this is just wrong."

Just how far am I suppose to suspend disbelief? And in the end, it just doesn't feel right that Amy can fix everyone's problems. It might take her more than one try, but there are more than one problem per book and they all end up squeaky clean. Like in this book, how she got Pauline's boyfriend back in Portugal to fly over to get back together with her, after pretending to be Pauline online, exchanging love poems, etc with the older man. And after he proposed, they never bothered to mention that Pauline was still oblivious to someone impersonating her online? Would Dean be mad when he finds out since it lead to a marriage proposal?

[Jemma]

A little generous giving it 3 stars. Almost DNF’d with 100 pages left but I carried on anyway and it did improve a little.

[jefna · Rating 1 out of 5]

prolly the boringest in the series

[Jan.kc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amy and Mills have been friends for a long time but it gets to a point where Amy and Mills had an argument. They fought because Amy wrote bad things about Mills and Mills found out. They fought for a long time until Mills finally forgives Amy. During their fight Claire (also know as Mills sister) is also having trouble with ballet. She has been stressing out about the big perfomance because there is also another girl that have been teasing Claire about her dancing. While Mills and Amy are fighting Claire is also having her own problems that she needs to solve. Amy finally got help from Clover (also known as her aunt). When Mills forgave Amy their friendship was not broken anymore. Claire also manage to get her problems solve.

[Margie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another fun read in this series. Tween girls will love this latest adventure/mystery.

[Emma Ashley]

Amazing any young dancer would love this!