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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team to achieve success-and its impact on our popular culture. Amidst a culture actively whitewashing, controlling, or trying to prevent their stories from being told, these artists changed the course of American entertainment. This groundbreaking group of performers and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Valentine and Proteus are devoted comrades ― until they travel to Milan and meet Silvia, the Duke's ravishing daughter. Torn between the bonds of friendship and the lure of romance, the two gentlemen are further bedeviled by Proteus's prior commitment to Julia, his hometown sweetheart, and the Duke's disdain for Valentine. Thus the stage is set for a comic spree involving a daring escape into a forest, capture by outlaws, and the antics of a clown...
Author
Language
English
Description
Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare's life have been known...
Author
Series
Nate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park," relates high school junior Franny's summer at Mansfield College in Portland, Oregon, where she helps her aunt sew costumes for an acting program and gets caught between the boy she likes and the one who likes her.
68) A deadly habit
Author
Series
Publisher
Cr�eme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 43
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Aldens become involved in a community theater production of "The Wizard of Oz", which is systematically and mysteriously being sabotaged.
Author
Series
Princess for hire novels volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Desi Bascomb, who was hired by the Façade Agency to use their special formula to transform into the look-alike of any princess who needs a substitute, is enjoying the perks of her job, including make-up, celebrities, and time with Prince Karl, but she begins to have a bad feeling about the agency.
71) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been, written in 1610—11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit...
Author
Series
Frey and McGray novels volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
73) Stage fright
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
74) Othello
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Othello" by William Shakespeare is a captivating tale of love, jealousy, and the destructive power of deceit. Set against the backdrop of Venice, this timeless tragedy follows the noble Moorish general Othello as he falls deeply in love with the beautiful Desdemona. However, their happiness is short-lived as the ensign Iago, consumed by jealousy and ambition, begins to manipulate Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful.
What unfolds...
75) Henry V
Author
Language
English
Description
Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeare's "Henry V" forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays which includes "Richard II", "Henry IV, Part I", and "Henry IV, Part II". The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended to the thrown following the death of his father,...
76) Shakespeare
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Franklin Watts library ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Humorous illustrations, captions, and sidebars take away the glamour and romance of being an actor during the time of William Shakesepeare, illustrating the darker side of this profession.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As one of The Essential Five theater students at her alternative high school, Rebecca Rivers is preparing to become an actress and enjoying junior year with the perfect boyfriend until life-changing rumors threaten everything.
79) Tanqueray
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she's better known to HONY followers as "Tanqueray," the indefatigable woman who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Brandon Stanton chronicled her life in the longest series he had yet posted on HONY, but, now, Stephanie Johnson-a...
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