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Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Starring Jules volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jules is an ordinary seven-year-old girl, concerned with school and friends and other ordinary things--until a chance meeting with a casting director leads to an audition for a television commercial.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Starring Jules volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jules, excited and nervous about her part in a sitcom pilot, is also concerned about her class moving up ceremony and her touchy relationships with ex-best friend Charlotte and new best friend Elinor--it is almost too much drama for one seven-year-old New Yorker to handle.
45) Long story short
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old homeschooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life--and love--can't be lived by the (text)book"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Pubishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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...
48) Karthik delivers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Moving from London to Edinburgh after tragically losing her fiancée, former actress Alex Morris accepts a drama-therapy teaching job for troubled teens and bonds with them over the Greek tragedies in ways that help her heal but inspire the teens in disturbing ways.
51) Acting class
Author
Publisher
published in Canada by Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Raincoast Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina. "Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception." --John Smith, acting coach. From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together under the tutelage of John Smith, a mysterious and morally questionable...
52) Hurricane child
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Series
Kageki shoujo!! volume 5
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With the Sports Festival coming to a spectacular close, it's time for the Kouka students to prepare for the Culture Festival, a one-of-a-kind graduation performance put on by the second-years! This year's festival will be even more special, as the first-years are being offered a chance to perform a scene from a play! Sarasa is dead set on scoring a starring role, but so are all of her classmates!"--Back cover.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he gets to go to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up geting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1977
Language
English
Description
A neurotic baker goes out for an acting role to rival Rudolph Valentino--despite the fact that he knows nothing about either acting OR love--in order to win back his wife, who has left him for the real Valentino.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
59) Broadway bird
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Louisa is a tiny parakeet with a huge dream: to be a Broadway star. But no matter what she does, everyone keeps telling her she's too small to make it big! When a chance at her big break comes, Louisa learns that no matter how small you are, with a little talent and a lot of hard work, you can do anything--even be on Broadway."--
60) Hamlet 2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When his Tucson, AZ school's theater department is threatened to be cut, failed-actor-turned-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz writes a play that he hopes will solve everything. He decides to write a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Now, the drama department will stage one of the most politically incorrect musical extravaganzas ever seen. Dana and his class will put it all on the line for a night of conflict and controversial.
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