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Nancy Clancy volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom has gone viral. Will Nancy's humiliation get the best of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
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Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Nate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T.."
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Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Jake Semple is a scary kid. Word has it that he burned down his old school and then was kicked out of every other school in his home state. Only weeks into September, the middle school in Traybridge, North Carolina, has thrown him out too.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 25
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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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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[2022]
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"It's one hour until the curtain goes up, and nonbinary fourth-grader Riley and their classmates just had a disastrous dress rehearsal. How can they fix everything in time? Riley and their classmates find out that there are many ways to solve a problem, especially when the clock is ticking and fun is on the line!"--
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[2016]
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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...
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Follow the reader volume 77
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Second-grader Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.
14) Rule of three
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including auditioning for the same part in the school musical, baking contest-worthy cupcakes, and becoming obsessed with "Little Women."
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Chance to fly volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
16) The Marvels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900--and nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis, runs away from home, seeking refuge with his uncle in London, and is captivated by the Marvel house, with its portraits and ghostly presences.
17) The New York Times book of Broadway: on the aisle for the unforgettable plays of the last century
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Ben Brantley relives unforgettable Broadway and off-Broadway moments. Witness the night a star was born, a director's brilliant debut, a play that broke new ground, a musical that redefined the genre, and even a terrible play that ran for years. This entertaining, essential volume for anyone who loves Broadway will include a foreword from a major actor, a full introduction by Ben Brantley, drama critic of The Times, and his choice of 100 other most...
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[2004]
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With a kid friendly format, this book offers a concise introduction to performance and design elements of the theater. Suggests ways for young actors to use their dramatic talents in mime, clowning, dance, puppetry, and theatrical forms from readers' theater to Shakespearean tragedy, and offers sample scripts and advice on stagecraft. Includes information on drama, comedy and tragedy; clowning and puppetry; set design and costumes, and much more.
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London beginnings volume 1
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"When unfortunate circumstances leave Rosalyn Bernay penniless in 1880s London, she takes a job backstage at a theater and finds herself dreaming of a career in the spotlight. Injured soldier Nate Moran is also working behind the scenes, but he can't wait to return to his regiment in India until he meets Rosalyn."--Worldcat.org.