theater

Eight-year-olds Sydney (girl) and Sidney (boy) are neighbors, classmates, and usually friends, so working together on the school play should not be too difficult.

When Mallory gets the lead in the school play, she cannot understand why her best friend Mary Ann is not just as excited as she is, but eventually she finds out--and learns who her real friends are.

At almost-thirteen, Junebug has never felt right except as stagehand at her father's summer theater, but after her parents separate and an irritating intern takes over her responsibilities, she discovers how hard life can be without a script to follow.

The Thanksgiving mice put on a play to tell how the original Pilgrims came to America.

The magic wind changes Katie into Miriam, who just landed the role in the school play, and she soon finds herself on stage, trying to sing and remember her lines. Includes directions for making fingerprint doodles.

Third-grader Willimena is unhappy when she is rejected for the leading role in a school play and instead is given the role of a tree in the play.

Tacky 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.

Describes the Broadway musical production of "Really Rosie" through all stages of preparation from planning and rehearsals to previews and opening night.

When she wins the lead role in a school play, second-grader Ellie neglects her friends in the Critter Club and their new animal shelter.

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.