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Author
Series
Backstagers (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After all the backstage ghost drama during Phantasm, things are quiet for the Backstagers of the St. Genesius School Drama Club. Too quiet. But when that quiet is filled by a mysterious voice that haunts the Backstagers day and night, they set off on a globetrotting adventure to discover the ancient secrets of the legendary artifacts of the theater. Can they solve the mystery in time to open their production of the rock musical Tammy? Each Backstager...
Author
Series
Azaleah Lane volume 2
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Azaleah's older sister Nia is going to be the star of the school musical but things keep going wrong at the rehearsals (missing batteries, disappearing props, microphones that suddenly do not work); Mr. Guidi, the director, blames the ghost of Thespis, but Azaleah suspects that somebody is actually sabotaging the play--and she is determined to use her detective skills to uncover the culprit, and set things right so the play will be a complete success...
144) You wouldn't dare
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Juniper Nash Abreheart kissed Graham Isham for the first time, she had no idea it would nearly be the end of their friendship. More specifically, she had no idea that the terrible, unforgivable thing she did to keep their summer fling a secret wouldn't just ruin their friendship, but also Graham's entire life. Now, months since the fallout, Junie and Graham spend most of their time sidestepping conversational landmines on the journey back to...
145) Secrets so deep
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Avril doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she knows there are lots of different ways for places and people to be haunted. Twelve years ago her mother drowned at Whisper Cove. Local legend claims that the women in the waves – the ghosts from an old whaling village – called her mother into the ocean with their whispering. Because, as they say at Whisper Cove, what the sea wants, the sea will have. She has spent the past twelve years...
146) Wishbone
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Pilar's mother has been extra vigilant about her fifteen-year-old daughter's diet after she came home from school in tears. The truth is, Pilar wouldn't mind losing some weight. She dreams of becoming an actor and wants to try out for the school production of "Our Town," but she's reminded constantly that she's too ugly, too fat, too Mexican. With the encouragement of some new friends and her feisty grandmother who thinks she's perfect just the way...
147) Ready to fall
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"17-year-old Max is struggling to come to terms with his mother's death"--
When Max Friedman's mother dies of cancer, instead of facing his loss, Max imagines that her tumor has taken up residence in his brain. It's a terrible tenant-isolating him from family, distracting him in school, and taunting him mercilessly about his manhood. With the tumor in charge, Max implodes, slipping farther and farther away from reality. Finally, Max is sent to the...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's 1991, and Tara Maureen Murphy is finally on top. A frightening cross between Regina George and Tracy Flick, Tara Maureen Murphy is any high school's worst nightmare, bringing single-minded ambition, narcissism, manipulation, and jealousy to new extremes in this outrageous, satirical twist on the coming-of-age novel. She's got a hot jock boyfriend in Christopher Patrick Caparelli, her best friend Stef Campbell by her side, and she's a SENIOR,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Nasrin Mahdavi is an Iranian-American college freshman who's a triple threat on Broadway-but who's living a double life. It's her first semester majoring in musical theater at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, and Nasrin spends her days prepping for auditions, sweating through dance classes, and belting her heart out for the viral streaming show she's been cast in. But on calls with her maman and baba, she's the golden child who put her...
150) Take me home tonight
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two girls. One night. Zero phones. Kat and Stevie-best friends, theater kids, polar opposites-have snuck away from the suburbs to spend a night in New York City. They have it all planned out. They'll see a play, eat at the city's hottest restaurant, and have the best. Night. Ever. What could go wrong? Well. Kind of a lot? They're barely off the train before they're dealing with destroyed phones, family drama, and unexpected Pomeranians. Over the next...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Find a Penny pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck...except, of course, if that Penny is charming and pretty and funny, and the person picking her up just happens to be your boyfriend. Alice McKinley's freshman year is not as "lucky" as she was hoping it would be. But she's is trying to look on the bright side. There are worse things than being single for a semester... for a school year...for the whole summer.... At least Alice can count...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Shannon Carter, who is devoted to her Minneapolis youth community theatre, feels more comfortable staying behind the scenes due to her OCD, but all that changes when the director casts her in a role.
After Shannon accidentally lands a lead role in the summer musical, she realizes she has bigger things to worry about than stage fright in this contemporary middle-school novel about strained friendships, the positive power of theater, and the realities...
153) Dixie
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dixie the puppy plays with Emma every day after school until Emma starts memorizing her lines for the school play.
Author
Series
Louise the big cheese volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When she learns her class will be doing a play, little Louise Cheese has big dreams of being the star, but when her best friend is given the lead she learns that even the small roles count.
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 14
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Mallory gets the lead in the school play, she cannot understand why her best friend Mary Ann is not just as excited as she is, but eventually she finds out--and learns who her real friends are.
156) Star of the show
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
Katie is sad when she is cast as an earthworm in her school play, because that means she cannot be the star.
157) Cupid's revenge
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Unlike her friend Teddy, sixteen-year-old Tilly is not looking for a girlfriend, but when Teddy forms a crush on Katherine Cooper-Bunting, his co-star in their community theater production, Tilly finds herself also swooning over her.
Author
Series
Henry Heckelbeck volume 13
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A sprained leg threatens to take away Henry's role as the lead character in his school play.
159) Ellie tames a tiger
Author
Series
Critter club volume 22
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
While Ellie struggles to rehearse with a reluctant classmate for an upcoming school performance, her fellow Critter Club members rescue an adorable kitten that wreaks havoc in their barn.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"An emotional story about a former ballerina who is thrust back into 'normal' high school after a life-changing injury, and who comes to terms with life without her passion as well as discrimination in the ballet world"--
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