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3) Jacky Ha-Ha
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Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"--
4) Show boat
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Series
Language
English
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Narrative of the Hawks-Ravenal family on the Mississippi, in "Cotton Blossom", their floating palace theater.
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Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation--and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne. "I'm sorry but the answer's no." Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne...
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Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical. Mister Monkey--a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee--is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot, who plays the chimp's lawyer, knows...
11) Asteroid City
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
Author
Series
Annie and Snowball volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Annie's friends Henry and Mudge, and especially her rabbit Snowball, help her get over feeling nervous about being in a school play.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.
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Series
Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When a troupe of theater students get stranded in a creepy old motel during a blizzard, they play a foreboding game of truth and lies that leads to real danger when a murderer is discovered in their midst"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother's play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships. Sam, Amy's daughter, was a Disney child star who continued her pursuit for fame in a Manhattan...
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English
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There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have gone home. Frank Rich's eloquent and moving boyhood memoir reveals how theater itself became a ghost light and a beacon of security for a child finding his way in a tumultuous world.
Rich grew...
Rich grew...
18) Star time
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Series
Zigzag kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gina wants more than anything to be the star of the show that her class will perform, but everything seems to go wrong until she makes a generous choice.
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Series
Phoebe and her unicorn volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Phoebe, Marigold, and Marigold's sister, Florence Unfortunate Nostrils, are headed to summer drama camp where they'll face the daunting tasks of writing, producing, and acting in an entirely original play.
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Series
Horrible Harry volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Harry incorporates his fascination with earwigs into Miss Mackle's class project of acting out a fairy tale in front of the other third graders.