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Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Amelia Bedelia volunteers to fill in as director of a third-grade Thanksgiving play, she misunderstands everything from one girl's desire to play a big role to an opening night wish that she "break a leg, " but all is well in the end.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Victorian London, Maisie Hitchins, a young detective who lives in her grandmother's boarding house, finds herself immersed in the excitement and glamour of the theater when she investigates the theft of a valuable necklace belonging to an actress friend of a longtime boarder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Yasmin opted to be the director of her school play, but she is finding it difficult to keep the actors happy and the play moving forward--until she finally asserts her authority and makes the changes necessary to save the play.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1935, while preparing to write a newspaper story about a theater production of Macbeth in her hometown of Cincinnati, twelve-year-old Kit discovers that a thief is stealing from the box office.
85) Short
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive--one of the adults with dwarfism who've joined the production's motley crew of Munchkins--and with...
86) Curtain call
Author
Series
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Babymouse tries out for the middle school play, but instead of landing the lead role, she gets stuck with playing a clown with one line of dialogue"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"--
88) Drama
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she's a terrible singer. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage...
Author
Series
Henry Heckelbeck volume 13
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"A sprained leg threatens to take away Henry's role as the lead character in his school play."
90) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jacky "Ha-Ha" Hart is a class clown with a penchant for pranking--and when she's required to act in the school play to appease her frustrated teachers, she must conquer her stutter"--
Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh, and cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous, faraway war, and a dad who's hardly ever home. When she's required to act in the school...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Now on Broadway as second understudy for E.T., Nate Foster keeps in close contact with his best friend, Libby, as he faces his nemesis, Jordan Rylance, and his own insecurities as the cast member with the least training and experience.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Formats
Description
"London, 1908. The Fitzglens are proud of their reputation as one of London's leading theatre families. They are, however, equally proud of another profession which they pursue very discreetly . . . When not on stage, they are thieves. Jack Fitzglen's latest plan is to seek out the infamous Talisman Chalice, steal it and create a dazzling piece of theatre around it. He travels to Vallow Hall in Northumberland to find the mysterious Maude - the last...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In two separate stories, George looks forward to Christmas but the class play and and a surprise visit with Kevin, his best friend from when he lived in Cherrydale, are both marred by the magic burps.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eva's class is putting on a play, Snowy White and the seven owlets, but Eva is a little disappointed when she is cast as the Magic Mirror (and Snowy White's understudy); the owl students are making all the sets, props, and costumes, and rehearsal is a little chaotic--but the play is going well until Snowy White hurts her leg and Eva has to fill in for real.
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Lola Levine is given a non-speaking part after getting stage fright during her class play audition. She saves the play after a couple of obstacles with the help of her grandmother"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2013
Description
For the crew of the New Strand Theatre, the play "The Two Murderers" seems less performance than prophecy when a cast party ends in the shocking death of the theater owner's son. The crime scene is most unusual, even for Bryant and May. In a locked bedroom without any trace of fingerprints or blood, the only sign of disturbance is a gruesome life-size puppet of Mr. Punch laying on the floor. Everyone at the party is a suspect, including the corrupt...
98) Thistlefoot
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited--only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house...
Author
Series
For a muse of fire volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Jetta, a teen who possesses secret, forbidden powers, must gain access to a hidden spring and negotiate a world roiling with intrigue and the beginnings of war"--
Jetta's family is the most talented troupe of shadow players in the land. With Jetta behind the scrim, their puppets seem to move without string or stick-- a trade secret, they say. In truth, Jetta uses the forbidden old ways to bind the souls of the recently departed to the puppets with...
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 18
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Desmond and Andres must confront stage fright and a demon as they act their way through the most cursed school play ever.
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