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Author
Series
Caraval volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Having made a deal with a criminal to save her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage, Tella must win Caraval and uncover Legend's identity, or risk losing everything, including her life.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Color stills, behind-the-scenes stories, interviews and insightful analysis of each film...will put a smile on the face of all film buffs." ?The Detroit Free Press
From such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly...
From such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly...
4) The world's your stage: how performing artists can make a living while still doing what they love
Author
Publisher
AMACOM, American Management Association
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Filled with insights from leading figures in the arts as well as lessons from thriving artist-entrepreneurs, the authors explain the business side of performing arts, in a book that helps readers understand the numbers, find their niche, market and promote themselves and their venture, network productively , fundraise both online and off and much more.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie. Michelle R. Scott's institutional history details T.O.B.A.'s...
Author
Series
Thea Stilton. Mouseford Academy volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Beautiful idols volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Hollywood it-girl goes missing amid dangerous secrets, Layla, Aster and Tommy struggle to clear their names and identify the source of sinister messages while the tabloids explode with rumors.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe Waller-Bridge's critically acclaimed, utterly unique series Fleabag took the world by storm with its piercing dialogue, ruthlessly dry wit, and deeply human drama. In Fleabag: The Scriptures, Waller-Bridge brings together for the first time the complete filming scripts of the first and second seasons, annotated with never-before-seen stage directions and exclusive commentary on her creative process and the making of the series. Now recognized...
10) Fame
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Millie bailaba jazz en su barrio italiano. Pedro bailaba canciones latinas en su barrio puertorriquęo. Era la ďcada de 1940 en la ciudad de Nueva York, y ten̕an prohibido bailar juntos ... hasta que primero una banda y luego un sal̤n de baile rompieron el Machito y sus afrocubanos llegaron a la escena con un sonido completamente nuevo, mezclando trompetas y saxofones de jazz con maracas y congas latinas creando jazz latino, m︢sica para la cabeza,...
Series
Kageki shoujo!! volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since she was a little girl, Sarasa has wanted to play the role of Oscar as part of the Kouka Acting Troupe, an all-female acting troupe similar to the Takarazuka Revue. But before she can do that, she has to attend two years at the Kouka School of Musical and Theatrical Arts. As Sarasa practices singing, dancing, and acting, she grows closer to the other girls in her year, including her roommate, the stoic former J-idol, Ai. Though Sarasa is...
15) You in five acts
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
It's always been you--you know that, right? At a prestigious New York City performing arts school, five friends connect over one dream of stardom. But for Joy, Diego, Liv, Ethan and Dave, that dream falters under the pressure of second-semester, Senior year. Ambitions shift and change, new emotions rush to the surface, and a sense of urgency pulses between them: Their time together is running out. Diego hopes to get out of the friend zone. Liv wants...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts," two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting...
17) Starring Carmen!
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Singer, dancer, actress, and costume designer Carmen puts on a show every night for her exhausted parents, who would like Carmen to share the stage with her biggest fan, her little brother Eduardo.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel set in an unnamed South American country"--
"The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's downfall. Nelson's life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man, his brother has left their South American country and moved to the United States, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Frannie loves to have an audience. Pepper prefers to perform when no one is around. Pepper and Frannie are best friends, and they both love a good show. When they decide to stage a performance themselves, Pepper is content to work behind the scenes as Frannie prepares an epic, extravagant spectacle: it will have lights, and action, and drama! She's just forgetting one thing...to practice her song. When Frannie's lack of preparation leaves her stuck...
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