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    Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants!
    Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants!
    Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants!
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    Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants!

    By Quvenzhané Wallis, Nancy Ohlin and Sharee Miller

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    From Academy Award–nominated actress Quvenzhané Wallis comes the second story in a brand-new series about best friends Shai and Emmie, two third-graders destined for superstardom.

    Shai Williams—third-grader and superstar in the making—loves to act, sing, and dance. So when her teacher, Ms. Englert, signs their class up for a major dance competition, Shai’s fancy moves are put to the test. Paired up with her best friend Emmie and classmate Rio, Shai plans to settle her competition jitters by just having fun. That is until her rival, Gabby Supreme, challenges her to a bet: whoever loses the dance competition has to bring the winner one cupcake every day for a month.

    Now Shai has to win.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateJan 9, 2018
    ISBN9781481458870
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    Quvenzhané Wallis

    Quvenzhané Wallis knows a thing or two about creating memorable characters. For her feature film debut, Beasts of the Southern Wild, she was nominated for an Academy Award. Shortly after, she received a Golden Globe nomination for her work as the title character in Annie. She has also appeared in 12 Years a Slave, The Prophet, and Fathers and Daughters. Quvenzhané is a daughter, a sister, a model, a singer, a dancer, an actress, an author, a student, and a pet owner. She has many talents and is always willing to try something new. She lives in Louisiana with her family. She is the author of the Shai and Emmie series and A Night Out with Mama.

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      Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants! - Quvenzhané Wallis

      SCENE 1

      Hurricane Shai

      You are hurricanes! Ms. Englert called out to the class.

      Shai Williams pretended to be a hurricane. She spun around and around and waved her arms in a swirly pattern. She made whooshing wind noises through her lips.

      Nearby, her best friend, Emmie, did some tiptoe-y ballet steps.

      Are you raindrops? Shai asked Emmie.

      Yes, exactly! Emmie replied.

      Shai swooped in wide circles around Emmie, spinning and arm waving and whooshing. Emmie quickened her raindrop steps until they were a frenzied staccato: plinkplinkplinkplinkplink. The two girls were a hurricane together!

      Now the storm is starting to wind down . . . down . . . down, said Ms. Englert in a hushed voice.

      All the students began winding down, down, down. Shai stopped spinning and arm waving and whooshing. Emmie’s raindrops slowed to a trickle.

      Oh, look! The sun is coming out! Ms. Englert exclaimed.

      Shai tipped her face to the sky—or rather, the ceiling of the dance studio—and made flappy jazz hands. Emmie did the same. They smiled sunny smiles at each other.

      Ms. Englert clapped, and everyone came to a halt. That was lovely. No, not just lovely . . . magnificent! Now we’re going to pretend we are salads!

      Salads?

      Ms. Englert was the dance teacher at the Sweet Auburn School for the Performing Arts. She was full of zany ideas. Today she was having each student improvise, or make up, dances to go with different themes.

      Shai loved Ms. Englert. She also loved the dance studio, which was on the second floor of the school. It had mirrored walls and ballet barres. It had framed photographs of famous dancers like Alvin Ailey, Savion Glover, and Misty Copeland. It had a poster of three dancing honeybees that said: BEE AMAZING!

      After the salad dance, Ms. Englert had the class improvise a crayon dance. (Shai improvised her favorite color, turquoise.) Then a video-game dance. (She improvised Olimar from her favorite game, Pikmin for Wii U.)

      It was time for a break. The students got their water bottles. Ms. Englert played some relaxing chirping-birds music on her phone. She sat down on her big blue yoga ball.

      So I’d like to put something out there. Ms. Englert fluttered her fingers and traced three squiggly letters in the air. "D . . . W . . . K . . . Does anyone know what that abbreviation stands for?"

      Shai made a scrunchy thinking face. D and W and K.

      Decorating With Kites?

      Driving While Karaoking?

      Shai’s friend Rio raised his hand. DWK stands for Dancing With Kids. It’s a dance competition!

      Yes, Rio. Exactly! It’s held in a different city each year. This year it will be right here in Atlanta, at the Robinson Arena, said Ms. Englert.

      Oh yeah. Shai had seen the competition on TV once, and the dancers had been really amazetastic!

      Are we going to DWK for a field trip? a boy named Capone asked Ms. Englert.

      Even better! I was thinking that we could enter the competition as a class! Ms. Englert replied.

      Shai’s jaw dropped. Enter the competition as a class? Ms. Englert might as well have said, Let’s enter the Olympics as a class! or Let’s fly to Jupiter as a class! They were only third graders. Granted, Dancing With Kids was just for kids. But from the one time Shai had watched it, the competitors had seemed like the best dancers in the universe, practically.

      Also, the Robinson Arena was hunormous! Shai glanced out the window. There it was . . . stretching across Atlanta’s downtown skyline like a silver spaceship. Momma and

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