On the whole, I was disappointed with this story, and not just because it was obviously a cheap knockoff story focused on beefing up a series that has been optioned for television. I was more disappointed with the manner in which Angelina took it upon herself to sneak her way out of ballet school, and especially the way in which the situation was handled by her parents after they discovered what she had done. Calling the school and pretending to be her mother to a school official should have been serious business, yet it wasn't handled that way. It was brushed aside instead and the focus remained on getting Angelina to accept her new home. Without some consequence for her action, what will Angelina do the next time she feels overwhelmed? Probably the same thing if not something worse. These are not the sort of behaviors a children's book should condone. ( )