Kehret, Peg

A collection of sixty-five monologues providing young performers with a variety of audition pieces reflecting situations both serious and comic.

A collection of monologs for teenagers on subjects such as teenage pregnancy, first jobs, and friendship.

In letters to an elderly pen pal, eleven-year-old Julie describes how her mischievous younger brother is always getting her in trouble, how she is dealing with painful juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and how she struggles to finish a fund-raising race on crutches.

The author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.

New to town and homesick for his old life, fourth-grader Peter teams up with a classmate to earn money for a trip to his old hometown but all their moneymaking schemes have unexpected results.

Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner.

In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship on which she is a stowaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all her resourcefulness to survive in the African jungle.

Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a monetary windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington in order to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.

Jeremy Holland, on his way to live with his uncle in Chicago after the deaths of his parents, takes advantage of a train wreck to run away; but his plan to spend the summer in a deserted cabin in the woods goes awry when he embarks on a crusade to save local bears from poachers.

When Rosie decides to do something about the vandals who are destroying school property, she finds herself running for her life.