children's plays

In this twenty-second book of the Critter Club series, Ellie prepares for her stage debut while she and the other girls try to keep a new kitty from wreaking havoc on their barn! Ellie is paired up with a classmate, Paul, on a special dance number for the school play. But right from the start, Paul gives her the cold shoulder! Will Ellie and Paul be able to patch things up in time to take the stage together? Meanwhile, Marion, Ellie, Liz, and Amy rescue an adorable kitten named Tiger...but he can't stop causing mischief in the Critter Club barn! Can the girls team up to help Tiger-and find him a new home?.

A collection of twenty-two humorous plays for teens and young adults that require very few props.

Treetop Owlementary is putting on a play! Eva and her friends can't wait to try out for parts, learn their lines, and build the sets.

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 for her stressed-out sister.

"It's spring break, and Stink is faced with a difficult choice: hang out at home with his sister, Judy, or become a Shakespeare Sprite with his friend Sophie of the Elves. Hanged be! When Sophie tells Stink that there will be swordplay and cursing at Shakespeare camp, his choice is made. But wait! How now? The eager young thespian hadn't counted on Riley Rottenberger being a Sprite, too. And he positively had not counted on being the only boy! Fie upon't!"--Provided by publisher.

When a girl who feels rotten about playing Second Banana in the annual food and nutrition pageant learns that the girl playing First Banana has stage fright, she suggests a solution to both problems.

Provides reader's theater scripts based on familiar fables and folklore for first through second grade classrooms and includes reproducible pages, comprehension and vocabulary pages, and teaching tips.

"Sassy and Waldo love to have fun! Like when they put on their trench coat and everyone thinks they're a student named Salty. Stewart knows the truth though. He is their best boy. The whole class is doing a school play! But now Stewart is acting like a different person, an evil person. Sassy and Waldo need to get their boy back! Even if it means doing that other kind of play"--Back cover.

Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl. Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something about it.

Noel is disappointed not to be offered the star role in the school ballet--The Nutcracker. On the opening night she discovers that she likes her part in the play just as much.