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Acting Out

by Justin Chanda

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Six masterful children's authors have become master playwrights in this collection of one-act plays that might just make you want to ACT OUT!

In The Raven, Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office while Susan Cooper shows the environment fighting back against overdevelopment in The Dollop. Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in The Bad Room and Katherine Paterson gives us a new twist on a classic fairy tale in The Billionaire and the Bird. Richard Peck's Effigy in the Outhouse is the story of schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute while Avi's Not Seeing Is Believing has words playing tricks on everyone.

With a star-studded lineup of writers there's a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains!

Newbery Medal-winning and beloved authors Avi, Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck have come together and written six original one-act plays to be read, shared, and acted out by the audience they know best.

The playwrights could write about anything and anyone they wanted, but one thing would need to tie the stories all together. Each author had to choose one word and share it with the group. These six words then had to be written intoeach of the plays.

The words they chose were "dollop," "hoodwink," "Justin," "knuckleball," "panhandle," and "raven." To find out the funny, odd, and creative ways they were used...Well, you'll have to read for yourself.

Synopsis:

Six masterful children's authors have become master playwrights in this collection of one-act plays that might just make you want to ACT OUT

In The Raven, Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office while Susan Cooper shows the environment fighting back against overdevelopment in The Dollop, Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in The Bad Room and Katherine Paterson gives us a new twist on a classic fairy tale in The Billionaire and the Bird, Richard Peck's Effigy in the Outhouse is the story of schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute while Avi's Not Seeing Is Believing has words playing tricks on everyone.

With a star-studded lineup of writers there's a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains

Newbery Medal-winning and beloved authors Avi, Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck have come together and written six original one-act plays to be read, shared, and acted out by the audience they know best.

The playwrights could write about anything and anyone they wanted, but one thing would need to tie the stories all together. Each author had to choose one word and share it with the group. These six words then had to be written intoeach of the plays.

The words they chose were dollop, hoodwink, Justin, knuckleball, panhandle, and raven. To find out the funny, odd, and creative ways they were used...Well, you'll have to read for yourself.

About the Author

Avi has published more than sixty books. Among them is Crispin: TheCross of Lead, winner of the 2003 Newbery Medal. Other novels with nineteenth-century settings, like The Traitors' Gate — his grand nod tothe work of Charles Dickens — are listed before the title page, and include the Newbery Honor Book, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Avi and his family live in Denver, Colorado.

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ISBN:
9781416938484
Author:
Chanda, Justin
Publisher:
Atheneum Books
Other:
Avi
Editor:
Avi
Author:
Various
Author:
Paterson, Katherine
Author:
Peck, Richard
Author:
Creech, Sharon
Author:
Avi
Author:
MacLachlan, Patricia
Author:
Cooper, Susan
Subject:
Children's plays, American
Subject:
American
Subject:
General Juvenile Fiction
Subject:
Performing Arts - Theater
Subject:
Plays
Edition Description:
Fifth
Publication Date:
June 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
Children/juvenile
Language:
English
Pages:
172
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.5 in
Age Level:
08-12

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