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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
472 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In late 19th century London, artist's model Eliza puts her heart, and her life, on the line when she falls into the company of an enigmatic showman called Devil; Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered dwarf with a penchant for magic and illusion; and the even more mysterious Jasper Button.
4) Drama queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Cousin Henry gets all the attention in the grown-up musical in which they have roles, Angelina become jealous, but she demonstrates her fondness for him when a crisis occurs on opening night.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the critic who gave his new play scathing reviews is murdered, stabbed in the heart with his ornamental dagger, author Anthony Horowitz is arrested by an old enemy out for revenge and the only man who can help him is his estranged partner in solving crime, Daniel Hawthorne.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.
8) 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"--
Author
Series
The Junie B. Jones volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship.
11) 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.
12) Read it and weep
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 292 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings. Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful...
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ella Mentry School is threatened with closure due to budget cuts, A.J.'s new speech teacher, Miss Laney, comes up with a brilliant, if weird, plan to save the day.
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Allie's theatrical hopes are crushed when, instead of being cast as the princess, she is given the role of the evil queen in the fourth-grade class play.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 170
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
137 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While vacationing in Paris with her friends Beth and George, seventeen-year-old Nancy pursues a mystery involving a puppet theater and a long-lost treasure.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Stevie and Kat, two high school seniors heavily involved in theater, leave Connecticut for a night of fun in New York City, but soon they find themselves without their phones or each other.