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Pushing up the sky

seven native American plays for children
Uses drama to tell seven different stories from Native American traditions including the Abenaki, Ojibway, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Snohomish, Tlingit, and Zuni.

An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

a play in one act
1967
Follows the last actions of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer who is sentenced to be hanged upon the Owl Creek Bridge.

Scenes from Rat-a-tat cat

2001
Contains three Spanish plays translated into English and based on traditional stories, designed for children in kindergarten through sixth grade, including "The Three Little Goats," "The Little Lamb and the Buzzards," and "Chicken Little.".

No more dead dogs

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

Four major plays

Four plays by the acclaimed author of An enemy of the people.
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Acting out

six one-act plays! : six Newbery stars!
Contains six original one-act plays by Newbery Award-winning children's authors, including Sharon Creech, Susan Cooper, Avi, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck.

Lively plays for young actors

12 one-act comedies for stage performance
Contains twelve plays for children, including fairy tales, Christmas plays, and comedies, with information on staging, costumes, and props.

See no evil

2002
Young Clark Kent, having inadvertently landed the lead in the school play, becomes concerned when mysterious accidents befall several cast members.
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Fifteen one-act plays

2012
Contains fifteen one-act plays by American playwright Sam Shepard.

The best 10-minute plays for two actors, 2004

2004
Presents a collection of thirty-two ten-minute plays for two actors, including two men, two women, and one man and one woman.

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