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Author
Series
Farm Family Theater volume 4
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
Edwin, an acting bear, gets his first important role in the family theatre production but is struck with stage fright on opening night.
2) Act cool
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Transgender teen and aspiring actor August lands a spot at a prestigious performing arts high school in New York City, but he struggles to move past the life he left behind, with conservative parents who wanted to send him to conversion therapy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Stevie Reel feels like she's the glue holding her family together, expecially since Boss Queen Alex has gotten so wrapped up in her school play - and her leading man - that she doesn't have time for the Sisters Club. Is it up to the middle-sister Stevie to save the day? Dive into the real-life ups and downs of sisterhood with the author of the best-selling Judy Moody series.
4) Ballet shoes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein. Includes author's note.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
Author
Series
Stink volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hie thee to Shakespeare camp with Stink to learn fake sword-fighting, spout silly curses, and prithee try to escape a kiss . . . BLUCK! It's spring break, and Stink is faced with a difficult choice: hang out at home with his sister, Judy, or become a Shakespeare Sprite with his friend Sophie of the Elves. Hanged be! When Sophie tells Stink that there will be swordplay and cursing at Shakespeare camp, his choice is made. But wait! How now? The eager...
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 24
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Thinking her friend Zeke is getting too much into his phantom role in the school play, Brooke becomes alarmed when scary things start happening backstage and wonders if a real phantom is out to stop the show.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Carter Moon is expecting to spend a quiet summer working in her parents' restaurant and hanging out with her best friends Alien Drake and Chloe. But when a Hollywood company arrives to film a movie, her sleepy California town is suddenly transformed and Carter finds herself playing an unexpected part in it all.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Eleven-year-old Ava Andrews has a Technicolor interior with a gray shell. On the inside, she bubbles with ideas and plans. On the outside, everyone except her best friend, Zelia, thinks she doesn't talk or, worse, is stuck-up. What nobody knows is that Ava has invisible disabilities: anxiety and a heart condition.Ava hopes middle school will be a fresh start, but when Zelia moves across the country and Ava's Nana Linda pushes her to speak up about...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Louie the unicorn has traveled from his home in Storyland to New York City to make all his dreams come true! He's enrolled at an elite performing arts school because he's determined to become a star.But his ride to super stardom is bumpy -- the school already has a superstar unicorn, not to mention singing mermaids and dancing trolls. And apparently you can't pay for things with glitter! But Louie isn't giving up. His irrepressible spirit can't be...
15) Free spirit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Kellie, one of the girls at the Stardust stunt-riding stables, is working as a stunt double on a movie--but when the actress comes down with food poisoning she is called upon to step into the leading role.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1938, twelve-year-old William has already decided to leave home when his younger sister informs him that she and their brother and sister are going too, and right away, but complications arise when an acquaintance decides to "help" them.
18) Theater shoes
Author
Series
Shoes volume 4
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
During World War II in England, three motherless children, whose father is reported missing in action, go to live with their grandmother in London and join the members of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Shai Williams, who plans to become a star on Broadway, loses the lead role in the third-grade musical at her performing arts elementary school in Atlanta, she learns an important lesson about adaptability, from her mother, aunt, and grandmother, all actresses.
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