"Saturdays make Ada cranky because that's the day of her ballet class, and she hates ballet"--

Keeping a promise to her friends in the Pals United for Furry Friends organization, ten-year-old Evangeline returns to Mudd Manor to try to rescue a group of minks before they are turned into ballet costumes.

When two friends vie for the part of Clara in "The Nutcracker," who will get the part?

Angelina is too sick to dance well during the tryouts for the lead in the "Princess of Mouseland" ballet, but when the leading ballerina sprains her foot, Angelina is ready to prove she is still the best dancer of all.

Although almost totally consumed by her ballet training and her obsession with controlling her weight, thirteen-year-old Delia finds time to worry about her strange and rebellious older sister Pearl, who has been sent away to a private school.

Bear is very glad about going to ballet class today, gets somewhat anxious before the music starts, then joyously begins to dance.

Tanya loves ballet dancing, repeating the moves she sees her older sister using when practicing for class or a recital, and soon Tanya is big enough to go to ballet class herself.

When the geese ask him for assistance with getting new ballet gear, Bruce the ever-grumpy bear agrees to help his friends get ready to stretch their wings and follow their dream of dancing.

When she has troubling mastering her dance steps in the part of the Ugly Duckling for the spring ballet recital, Tanya is discouraged and fears that she has much in common with the character.