If you like the theater,

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Say Goodnight Gracie

by Julie Reece DeaverWhen a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with

whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find her own way of coping with his death.

The Boy Who Owned the School

by Gary Paulsen

If Jacob wants to pass English, he must work for extra credit on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard of Oz.

Glass Slippers Give You Blisters

By: Mary Jane Auch

A school musical production of Cinderella, teaches Kelly learn to look first at what it means to do a good job and not just try to fake your way into a role, and then to explore who she can be on her own.

Teenage playwright David Mahooley, suffering from a major case of writer's block, finds his world turned upside down by the eccentric and thoroughly adult actress and writing coach Della Jones, who urges David to write about true teenage love.

David and Della: A Novel

By: Paul Zindel

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