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1) Cut loose!
Author
Series
Chance to fly volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nat jumps at the chance to participate in the middle school regional theater competition where the winner gets to perform on Broadway, but when stressful rehearsals negatively impact her friendships, she starts to wonder if it is worth doing theater at all.
2) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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"--
3) Wished
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maxine, with the help of an over-enthusiastic genie, makes a wish that has everyone at the Fairy Tale Reform School focusing on producing a musical rather than figuring out how to combat Rumpelstiltskin.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her mom's job and theater on the line, Zadie is determined to help make their show Spinderella the hit of the season--that is unless she accidentally turns it into a disaster.
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
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. Includes notes from author and illustrator, and an afterword from Reading Rainblow host LeVar Burton.
Author
Series
Chance to fly volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because she is afraid to read an essay aloud in English class, young Patricia is invited to take Mr. Wayne's drama class where she paints sets, participates in fun exercises, and memorizes every part in the play the others are rehearsing.
Author
Series
Nate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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."
10) I am the turkey
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mark does not want to play the turkey in the second grade Thanksgiving play, but then he ends up saving the day.
11) Summerlost
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief"--
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 26
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As tryouts for the school musical begin, Babymouse takes the starring role in several imaginary Broadway productions, which also feature her debonair new classmate, Henry the hedgehog.
15) Tune it out
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eliot is cast in a Thanksgiving play, and his dog, Tiny, wants to help but only gets in the way until disaster strikes on opening night.
18) Short
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Very short for her age, Julia grows into her sense of self while playing a munchkin in a summer regional theater production of The Wizard of Oz"--
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
" While on vacation in Greece, the Thea Sisters make friends with a company of actors who are rehearsing for a play that's about to open. When an actress sprains her ankle, Colette ends up standing in for her! But suddenly, right before the performance, the lead actor goes missing. Can the mouselets find him in time for the show to go on?" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The kids of Ant Hill do a play about their ancestors' first Thanksgiving when they hopped on the Mayflower and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and made many new six-legged friends around a big harvest spread.
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