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Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.

Franklin has a big role in the school play, but he's so nervous he keeps forgetting his lines.

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.

Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.

While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class.

Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey.

"Emma can't wait to audition for her school play. She already knows exactly what part she wants: the enchanted princess! She'll wear a beautiful blue gown and sparkly tiara, and everyone will admire her as she glides gracefully across the stage. But when she's cast as the cackling, warty old witch instead, Emma can't believe it! She's ready to quit the play. Can Emma learn that the show must go on?"--p. [4] of cover.

Sixteen-year-old Mel encounters a tangled web of relationships and her first romance when she is cast in a local theater company's production of "Three Sisters."

Bright but unenthusiastic middle school student Charlie Joe Jackson signs up for the school play in an attempt to get straight As on his last quarter report card in order to avoid having to go to Camp Rituhbukkee over the summer.

"Classic novels and crime solving intertwine in Katherine Bolger Hyde's charming series. Bloodstains with Bronte is the second in a series that will puzzle and please fans of mystery and masterpieces alike. Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers, Jake and Roman, are showing too much of the wrong kind of interest in Katie, Emily's young single-mother housekeeper. It's a stormy autumn and Emily is reading Wuthering...