Tara: Everything to Lose

Dance Academy #6

by Meredith Costain

All your favourite DANCE ACADEMY characters are back... But will they survive Second Year? 9+ It's a new year and tara has returned to the Academy determined to work harder than ever before. But it's not long before obstacles start building up against a new rival from the Royal Ballet School, a jealous teacher and an injury that threatens to destroy her dream of becoming a world-class ballerina. At least she has Christian to depend on. Or is there yet another rival waiting in the wings? 9+

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

Reviews

[Pooja Banga · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't find fun in reading this ..
I think other bookof this series which I read is much better ..
Spoilers-It's a new year and tara has returned to the Academy determined to work harder than ever before. But it's not long before obstacles start building up against her: a new rival from the Royal Ballet School, a jealous teacher and an injury that threatens to destroy her dream of becoming a world-class ballerina. At least she has Christian to depend on

[Sonya Bright · Rating 1 out of 5]

These novelisations of the popular TV series really don't hold up on their own. I've flipped through a few of the books now, and they are basically just scene-by-scene rewrites of what happened on the screen. You're expected to go in knowing exactly who all the characters are (there's no background or description given whatsoever), and each scene is only a couple of paragraphs long.

A similar (and now old!) series that was much better-done - at the same length - were the Satin Slippers books.

I'm sure these were a hit with the target audience, but as someone who's only seen a random Dance Academy episode here and there, they simply do not work for me.