Annabel The Actress Starring In Camping It Up
Annabel dreams of becoming a famous actress, so when the camp holds auditions for the yearly play, Annabel tries out for a big part, but she soon learns there is more to life than fame and fortune.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: annabel the actress (fictitious character), theater [X], actors [X], camps, snakes, actors and actresses, humorous stories
Starring Miss Darlene
Much to her surprise, a young girl's on-stage mishaps are reviewed favorably by the theater critic.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 470
Shakespeare's Scribe
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: shakespeare, william, theater [X], orphans, actors and actresses, plague, historical fiction, great britain, extreme read-dig deep, actors [X]
All The World's A Stage
Twelve-year-old orphan Christopher "Kit" Buckles becomes a stage boy in a London theater in 1598, tries his hand at acting, and later helps build the Globe Theater for playwright William Shakespeare and the Chamberlain's Men acting troupe.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
The Shakespeare Stealer
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: shakespeare, william, theater [X], orphans, actors and actresses, great britain, historical fiction, actors [X]
Here's How I See It
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.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: theater [X], family life, actors [X], asperger's syndrome, family problems, actors and actresses, family, dysfunctional families, families
Shakespeare's Spy
The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: shakespeare, william, stealing, theater [X], orphans, actors and actresses, spies, great britain, theft, actors [X], globe theatre (london, england : 1599-1644), actresses, apprentices
Jumbee
Devastated by the death of her Shakespearean-actor father, Esti Legard moves to a tropical island for her senior year in high school, where she finds herself torn between a mysterious, masked mentor and a seductive island boy as she tries to escape the overpowering shadow of her famous father.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
Saving Juliet
Seventeen-year-old Mimi Wallingford's stage fright and fight with her mother on the closing night of Romeo and Juliet are nothing compared to the troubles she faces when she and her leading man are transported to Shakespeare's Verona, where she decides to give the real Juliet a happy ending.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: shakespeare, william, actors [X], theater [X], space and time, interpersonal relations, actors and actresses, verona (italy), italy, mothers and daughters, time travel, shakespeare
The Oxford Companion To The Theatre
Alphabetically-arranged articles about actors, theaters, and theater terms.
792.03
year: 1983
copies: 4
call number/section: 792.03
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Show, Don't Tell
With the Renaissance Faire in town, Sam is excited to see old friends, and Bryan struggles over whether he should come clean after learning someone knows his secret.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Twenty Names In Theater
Brief biographies of twenty people, from Aeschylus to Laurence Olivier, who have become famous through their work in the theater.
920
year: 1990
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
lexile:
Eyes Like Stars
Thirteen-year-old Bertie strives to save Theater Illuminata, the only home she has ever known, but is hindered by the Players who magically live on there, especially Ariel, who is willing to destroy the Book at the center of the magic in order to escape into the outside world.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: theater [X], magic, actors [X], orphans, books and reading, theaters, identity, actors and actresses
The Four Dorothys
The students at the Orion Academy put on a musical based on the Wizard of Oz.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: actors and actresses, theater [X], actors [X], musicals, high schools, gale, dorothy (fictitious character), actresses
Theater Actors
Explains how the art of acting has changed over the years.
792
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: 792
lexile: 440