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Almost starring Skinnybones
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Barbara Park |
Irrepressible, twelve-year-old Alex is convinced that he will be a star and impress his schoolmates when, as the winner of a cat food essay contest, he is asked to make a commercial for national tele… |
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David & Della
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Paul Zindel |
David Mahooley, a teenage playwright suffering from writer's block, finds himself drawn into the passionate world of a flamboyant, alcoholic young actress with a talent for lying. |
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Say goodnight, Gracie
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Julie Reece Deaver |
When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan mus… |
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Between you & me
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Marisa Calin |
Phyre, sixteen, narrates her life as if it were a film, capturing her crush on Mia, a student teacher of theater and film studies, as well as her fast friendship with a classmate referred to only as … |
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Wonderland
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Joanna Nadin |
Jude must get away. She has to ace her exams and an audition at a prestigious drama school or she'll never escape her small town life and follow her dream of becoming an actor. But then her best frie… |
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Starring Jules (as herself)
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Beth Levine Ain |
Jules is an ordinary seven-year-old girl, concerned with school and friends and other ordinary things--until a chance meeting with a casting director leads to an audition for a television commercial. |
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Cloudy With A Chance Of Boys
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Megan McDonald,Jenna Lamia |
As the middle sister in a family with three girls, Stevie Reel doesn't know much about boys, and that's always been just fine with her. But lately, things have been changing: kids at school are start… |
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Shai & Emmie star in Break an egg!
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Quvenzhané Wallis |
When Shai Williams, who plans to become a star on Broadway, loses the lead role in the third-grade musical at her performing arts elementary school in Atlanta, she learns an important lesson about ad… |
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Bright Lights
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Linda Chapman |
Eleven-year-old Sophie dreams of becoming a famous actress but her life is quite ordinary as she argues with her brothers and sisters, hangs out with her friends and aims for the lead in the school p… |
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Antonio S. and the mystery of Theodore Guzman
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Odo Hirsch |
Antonio, living in part of a very large house with his magician father and doctor mother, knows all sorts of unusual things but it is not until he meets his mysterious neighbor, Theodore Guzman, that… |
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Dodger
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Libby Gleeson |
Mick has been offered the role of the Artful Dodger in the school play, but his friends think he's mad and his Dad probably won't be able to come. Mick is afraid of letting his new friends down and r… |
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The Method
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Paul Robert Walker |
An intensive summer workshop on method acting brings fifteen-year-old Albie insight on sexual expression, identity, and conduct of life. |
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My nights at the Improv
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Jan Siebold |
A freshman is afraid of taking risks at her new school, but as she secretly observes an improvisational theater class week after week, she begins to apply its principles to her own life. |
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Screen test
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David Klass |
While starring in her first feature film, sixteen-year-old Liz is dazzled by Los Angeles and a charming and handsome leading man and wonders what it will be like to return to her normal life in New J… |
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Say goodnight, Gracie
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Julie Reece Deaver |
When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan mus… |
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Encore for Eleanor
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Bill Peet |
Eleanor the elephant, a retired circus star, finds a new career as the resident artist in the city zoo. |
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The Joys of Love
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Madeleine L'Engle |
During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to lea… |
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Break a Leg, Betsy Maybe!
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Lee Kingman |
A young girl involved in a high school theater troupe experiences the anxieties of growing up and first love. |
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The rule of three
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Megan McDonald |
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 obse… |
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My Aunt Ruth
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Iris Rosofsky |
Sixteen-year-old Patty is pleased when her Aunt Ruth, a vibrant actress who encourages her interest in the theater, comes to visit, but then serious complications in Aunt Ruth's diabetes threaten her… |
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