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Author
Series
Illusionists volume 1
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of three decades of writing, bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and the devotion of millions of loyal readers. Her new novel, The Illusionists, set in London in 1870, is a thrilling step forward-a captivating tale of passion and fantasy set in the theater world. At the start of The Illusionists, we meet Eliza, a young, beautiful woman of limited means. Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her...
Author
Series
Iris and Walter volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Iris is devastated when she has to miss being in her first school play because she is sick.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 11
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Instead of spending spring break at home with his sister, Stink decides to attend Shakespeare camp with his friend Sophie, but he didn't count on Riley Rottenberger also being there, or being the only boy.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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.
12) Twelfth
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maren hesitantly enters summer theater camp and finds clues of a mystery about the camp's founding, linking back to the Lavender Scare in Hollywood"--
13) Star-crossed
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When Mattie is cast as Romeo in an eighth-grade play, she is confused to find herself increasingly attracted to Gemma, a new classmate who is playing Juliet.
14) Beyond clueless
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Marty Sullivan attends an all-girl Catholic high school while her best friend, Jimmy, goes to public school in a different town and when he comes out of the closet, he finds a new group of friends while Marty finds connections--and alsoconfusion and uncertainty--through her school's fall musical.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598, William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is considered by some critics as one of his "problem plays." The controversy over the work stems from its portrayal of the character Shylock, a rich Jewish moneylender. The stereotypical depiction of Jews as avaricious usurers was common to the drama of the Elizabethan period. The story centers on the love of Bassanio, a young Venetian nobleman, who...
16) Banana pants!
Author
Series
Miranda and Maude volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fed-up with standardized testing, Miranda and Maude's teacher decides to put on a school play, inspiring the girls to fight for other positive changes--and leading to their first fight.
Author
Series
Missy's super duper royal deluxe volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The class is putting on a play about George Washington Carver, and Missy is mad because she does not have an important part, but when the lead actor freezes, Missy saves the play.
Author
Series
For a muse of fire volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jetta, a teen who possesses secret, forbidden powers, must gain access to a hidden spring and negotiate a world roiling with intrigue and the beginnings of war"--
19) Kate in waiting
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship.
20) Melissa
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Knowing herself to be a girl despite her outwardly male appearance, George is denied a female role in the class play before teaming up with a friend to reveal her true self.
"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY...
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