Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jacky spends the last weeks of summer at theater camp with new friends, lots of jokes, and plenty of drama.
Author
Series
Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Victorian London, Maisie Hitchins, a young detective who lives in her grandmother's boarding house, finds herself immersed in the excitement and glamour of the theater when she investigates the theft of a valuable necklace belonging to an actress friend of a longtime boarder.
Author
Series
Nate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T.."
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Told from three viewpoints, thirteen-year-old scientific genius Lenny Cyrus shrinks himself and, helped by his best friend Harlan, enters the body of Zooey, the girl he has loved since third grade, hoping to physically change her mind about him on the very day her play opens.
7) Replay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
Author
Series
Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Jake Semple is a scary kid. Word has it that he burned down his old school and then was kicked out of every other school in his home state. Only weeks into September, the middle school in Traybridge, North Carolina, has thrown him out too.
10) Amazing Grace
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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.
11) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation--even when she really, really shouldn't--twelve-year-old Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous, faraway war, and a dad who's hardly ever home. But no matter how much fun Jacky has, she can't seem to escape her worries. So one starlit night, she makes a promise...
12) Rule of three
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including auditioning for the same part in the school musical, baking contest-worthy cupcakes, and becoming obsessed with "Little Women."
13) Stage Fright
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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.
14) Drama
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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
Series
Chance to fly volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair.
17) Dixie
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dixie the puppy plays with Emma every day after school until Emma starts memorizing her lines for the school play.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When second-grader Eugene McGillicudy is forced to be the star of the students' winter play, he relies on his superpowered alter ego to help him.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 25
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Amelia Bedelia volunteers to fill in as director of a third-grade Thanksgiving play, she misunderstands everything from one girl's desire to play a big role to an opening night wish that she "break a leg," but all is well in the end.