Upstaged

A shy seventh grader learns to step into the spotlight in Upstaged, a heartwarming middle-grade novel by acclaimed author Diana Harmon Asher.

Shira Gordon is painfully shy. She rarely speaks and blushes at everything. And yet when she's alone in her room, she'll sing and dance, dreaming she were different. So when her best friend forces her to audition for their school's production of The Music Man, she's mostly hoping the play will get canceled . . . but a tiny part of her hopes she'll ge...