In a British alternative high school, fifteen-year-old Heidi stands out in many ways, but when she invents a boyfriend--complete with online profile--her friends turn to him for advice and she must decide how far she is willing to go to find acceptance.

While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."

After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair.

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.

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."--

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.

When Papa Bear receives a turkey in payment for some work, Sister wants to keep it as a pet and is upset that it may become Thanksgiving dinner, until Mama gives her some hope and distracts her by suggesting they put on a show.

Before the y knew it, the forest began to grow dark. "Ray, all this seems familiar. This place. It all seems like I've been here before. But that can't be, right? " Every story Mom told us had a prince and princess that were tweins. I always thought that was just becauseof you and me, but now I think she knew something....

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.

Takcy the penguin and his friends perform a play for the little penguins in Mrs. Beakly's class, but with Tacky in the lead role, things do not go exactly as planned.