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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and house treasure Francine Prose comes this ingenious, darkly humorous novel that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's theater production"--
"The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne. “I’m sorry but the answer’s no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective...
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lola Levine is given a non-speaking part after getting stage fright during her class play audition. She saves the play after a couple of obstacles with the help of her grandmother"--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to "a cluster of epigrams," forty-nine essays, a poem, and three speeches from an unfinished play. Seven years later, George J. Firmage-- editor of much of Cummings's work, including Complete Poems-- broadened...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Christmas season has arrived in Lower Lockwood, and the Fairway Players are busy rehearsing their festive holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for a new church roof. But despite the season, goodwill is distinctly lacking among the amateur theater enthusiasts with petty rivalries, a possibly asbestos-filled beanstalk, and some perennially absent players behind the scenes. Of course, there's also the matter of the dead body...
18) Kate in waiting
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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) Amazing Grace
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991
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.
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