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Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
3rd ed.
Language
English
Description
Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, film. These techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.-Print ed.
Author
Series
Grimmtastic girls volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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
Publisher
EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2012, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
When Georgie messes up on the audition for her dream role in the school play, she finds herself in trouble when she is secretly attending the play's rehearsals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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."
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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
Series
Hardy Boys secret files volume 12
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a film crew sets up shop to film the latest zombie flick, Frank, Joe, and their friends are really psyched that there will be fake zombies running around, until someone claims they saw a real zombie.
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.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt and funny story about a shy eleven-year-old who learns to manage her anxiety through improv classes--and discovers her activist voice. From Margaret Dilloway, author of Summer of a Thousand Pies, and perfect for fans of Sharon Draper, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, and Holly Goldberg Sloan. Eleven-year-old Ava Andrews has a Technicolor interior with a gray shell. On the inside, she bubbles with ideas and plans. On the outside, everyone except her...
12) 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
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....
14) Ballet shoes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
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
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Zeke's third grade class is putting on a play and Zeke is unhappy and annoyed with what he sees as too small a role--until his mother teaches him the meaning of the saying "there are no small parts, only small actors."
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
For nine seasons, Mary McDonough was part of one of the most beloved families in television history. Just ten years-old when she was cast as the pretty, wholesome middle child Erin, Mary grew up on the set of The Waltons, alternately embracing and rebelling against her good-girl onscreen persona. Now, as the first cast member to write about her experiences on the classic series, she candidly recounts the joys and challenges of growing up Walton--from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how LARPing, or live-action role playing, is one of the hottest hobbies today, and how its devoted participants develop detailed characters, invent names and personalities, as well as costumes and props.
19) A hairy problem
Author
Series
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What's up with Jackson Wolfgang, Shiverwood Academy's class clown and out-of-control werewolf? He can't sit still and howls during tests. He is supposed to be student of the week, but he feels more like the disaster of the year. It's not until he's sent to the principal's office that he learns how his behavior is linked to the phases of the moon. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
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