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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
252 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Sidney Camazzola plans to be the director of the Juicebox Theater one day, but for now, he has a great idea--extortion--for keeping the theater open.
7) Stagestruck
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although Tommy fails to get the part of Peter Rabbit in the kindergarten play, he still finds a way to be the center of attention on stage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kylie Jean's class is performing Alice in Wonderland and Kylie Jean knows she'd be just perfect as the Queen of Hearts, but mean girl Paula wants the part, too.
9) Replay
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
180, 31 p.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the critic who gave his new play scathing reviews is murdered, stabbed in the heart with his ornamental dagger, author Anthony Horowitz is arrested by an old enemy out for revenge and the only man who can help him is his estranged partner in solving crime, Daniel Hawthorne.
11) Forsooth
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
353 pages : 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Calvin knows he's destined to be a star... if he can just stop making embarrassing mistakes, like getting stuck on a single line--"Forsooth!"--and then falling off the stage during the school play. The summer after seventh grade, he's hoping for a fresh start. All he has to do is prove himself as an actor and fix the awkwardness with his friends that started after the play.
But nothing's going according to plan. His parents don't...
12) Amazing Grace
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Author
Series
Main Street volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
205 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flora worries about her first Thanksgiving without her parents, while Ruby worries about getting a part in the school musical, and their new friends, Olivia and Nikki, are adjusting to big changes in their families.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 21
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
54 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a thief takes the box office money at the school play, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume no. 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
115 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When second-grader Eugene McGillicudy is forced to be the star of the students' winter play, he relies on his superpowered alter ego to help him.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place to develop and...
19) Leading lady
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tales of London is set in the fascinating world of the London theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. Wardrobe mistress Bethia Rayborn incites the wrath of Muriel Pearce Holt, the new leading lady at London's Royal Court Theatre. Muriel plots revenge, but in scheming to steal Bethia's true love, she may lose the truest love she has ever known.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Between rehearsals for the school play and managing her divided family, seventeen-year-old Megan meets aspiring playwright Owen Okita, who agrees to help her attract the attention of a cute stagehand in exchange for help writing his new script.