In this book Tallulah wants to hurry up and get on to the part of ballet class where she learns to dance on pointe. She finds a pair of pointe shoes in the trash that an older girl has thrown out and attempts to dance at home, only to find that it makes her toes hurt. When she returns them to the trash the previous owner tells her that maybe someday she'll be able to dance on pointe. Tallulah becomes determined that she will!

I thought that the older dancer in the story could have been more motivating and spoken to Tallulah about how hard she had to pracitce when she first started dancing. That would have made the story much stronger. To me it felt like this older character was almost discouraging in the way she talked to Tallulah.