drama

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Pushing up the sky

seven native American plays for children
2000
Uses drama to tell seven different stories from Native American traditions including the Abenaki, Ojibway, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Snohomish, Tlingit, and Zuni.

The Big book of holiday plays

1990
Thirty-one plays for the celebration of fourteen holidays, including, in addition to the commonly-known ones, Book Week, Black History Month, Mother's Day, and St. Patrick's Day.

Take a walk in their shoes

1989
Presents biographical sketches of fourteen notable African-Americans, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and "Satchel" Paige, accompanied by brief skits in which readers can act out imagined scenes from their lives.

Escape to freedom

a play about young Frederick Douglass
1990
Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.

Center stage

one-act plays for teenage readers and actors
1990
A collection of ten one-act plays for teenage actors.

The diary of Anne Frank

1956
Presents a dramatization of the diary of Anne Frank, a thirteen-year-old German-Jewish girl who recorded her thoughts and experiences while in hiding from the Nazis for two years before being discovered and taken to a concentration camp.

Escape to freedom

a play about young Frederick Douglass
1978
Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.

Good masters! sweet ladies!

voices from a medieval village
2007
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

One fine day

a radio play
2003
Tells the story of the Wright Brothers' first successful flight, presented in the form of an illustrated radio play.

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