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Author
Series
Grimmtastic girls volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Red Riding Hood, who has a bad case of stage fright, decides to help her friends save Grimm Academy from the E.V.I.L. Society, but when she gets lost in the Neverwood Forest and runs into Wolfgang, who might be part of E.V.I.L., she needs her magic basket and a great performance to figure what is going on.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the new boy at her school turns out to be the son of a Hollywood power player, Jessica, a small-town sixteen-year-old with stars in her eyes, a job at Wal-Mart, and a bit part in "West Side Story," sets out to get Jordan's estranged father to attend the production--but her drama teacher's politically correct hatchet job on the script threatens to turn her "big break" into a disaster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including their long line of actor ancestors, creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and the Sisters Club.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
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
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Clue Crew gets the chance to visit a movie set thanks to one of Mr. Drew's connected clients, but fun turns to business when the film's star, famous feline Fluffington, disappears.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class.
7) Free spirit
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kellie, one of the girls at the Stardust stunt-riding stables, is working as a stunt double on a movie--but when the actress comes down with food poisoning she is called upon to step into the leading role.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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."
9) Ballet shoes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.
10) My hero
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A famous television canine sets off on a cross-country journey in search of his beloved costar and finds danger, adventure, and friendship along the way.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the post-war boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: business is good, they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother Mike and their once-close families sets the stage for a rematch....
12) Lights, camera
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew, starring in a reenactment of a legendary heist, must switch her acting hat for the more familiar one of detective when a series of suspicious accidents occur on the set.
13) Action!
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew must juggle acting and sleuthing when a suspicious fire breaks out on the set of a historical film about River Heights in which she is starring.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Edgar nominee Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a three-time Newbery Honor winner, and her book The Unseen was named as both a School Library Journal Best Book and Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner. In William S. and the Great Escape, Snyder pens a middle-grade adventure sure to be ranked with her very best.
15) Operation Yes
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.
16) Starring me
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Will seventeen-year-old Kara have to give up her acting dream when she learns that her audition for a television variety show starring a big-time teen celebrity hinges on her relationship with God?
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