×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Acting Out: Six One-Act Plays
192
6.99
In Stock
Overview
With a star-studded lineup of writers, there’s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains!
Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office in The Raven, and the environment fights back against overdevelopment in Susan Cooper’s The Dollop. Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in The Bad Room, and Katherine Paterson revives a classic fairy tale in The Billionaire and the Bird. Richard Peck has schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute in Effigy in the Outhouse, and Avi’s Not Seeing Is Believing has words playing tricks on everybody. There’s something for everyone in this all-star lineup.
Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office in The Raven, and the environment fights back against overdevelopment in Susan Cooper’s The Dollop. Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in The Bad Room, and Katherine Paterson revives a classic fairy tale in The Billionaire and the Bird. Richard Peck has schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute in Effigy in the Outhouse, and Avi’s Not Seeing Is Believing has words playing tricks on everybody. There’s something for everyone in this all-star lineup.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781416938491 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
Publication date: | 06/22/2010 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 192 |
Sales rank: | 306,156 |
Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 8 - 12 Years |
About the Author

Avi is the author of more than seventy books for children and young adults, including the 2003 Newbery medal winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead. He has won two Newbery Honors and many other awards for his fiction. He lives with his family in Denver, Colorado. Visit him at Avi-Writer.com.
Susan Cooper is one of our foremost children’s authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her many books have won the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel), King of Shadows and Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, won the Scottish Arts Council’s Children’s Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.
Patricia MacLachlan is the author of many well-loved novels and picture books, including Sarah, Plain and Tall, winner of the Newbery Medal; its sequels, Skylark and Caleb’s Story; Edward’s Eyes; The True Gift; Waiting for the Magic; White Fur Flying; and Fly Away. She lives in western Massachusetts.
Susan Cooper is one of our foremost children’s authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her many books have won the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel), King of Shadows and Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, won the Scottish Arts Council’s Children’s Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.
Patricia MacLachlan is the author of many well-loved novels and picture books, including Sarah, Plain and Tall, winner of the Newbery Medal; its sequels, Skylark and Caleb’s Story; Edward’s Eyes; The True Gift; Waiting for the Magic; White Fur Flying; and Fly Away. She lives in western Massachusetts.
Date of Birth:
December 23, 1937Place of Birth:
New York, New YorkEducation:
University of Wisconsin; M.A. in Library Science from Columbia University, 1964Website:
http://www.avi-writer.comCustomer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
A Dramatic Tale of Grizzlies and Gold Fourteen-year-old Cloyd Atcitty has been skipping school for
years. He's run away from a group home for Native American boys, and is now being sent to work for Walter Landis, an old rancher ...
Think carefully... That's the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jean's ...
Think carefully... That's the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jean's
guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. It's advice that proves valuable when Jean finds herself spending the summer far from home, ...
He didn't say good-bye. He didn't leave a phone number. And he didn't plan on
coming back - ever. In Wisconsin, Rico could blend in. His light hair and lighter skin wouldn't make him the dark dude or the punching ...
Jake is a part of an extraordinary family. He has a life filled with art, ...
Jake is a part of an extraordinary family. He has a life filled with art,
music, and long summer nights on the Cape. He has hours and days and months of baseball. But, more than anything in this world, Jake ...
Gr 4-6-- Jo and Andrew Whitman are moving temporarily to west Texas to live with ...
Gr 4-6-- Jo and Andrew Whitman are moving temporarily to west Texas to live with
their uncle, Judge Macklin, until their aunt can come up from Galveston to take over both their deceased grandmother's house in east Texas and their ...
Meet best pals Monkey and Robot. “Good-humored silliness prevails” (Publishers Weekly) in this snappy collection ...
Meet best pals Monkey and Robot. “Good-humored silliness prevails” (Publishers Weekly) in this snappy collection
of four stories!Monkey and Robot are friends—the best kind. They simply belong together, and it never matters that silly Monkey is furry, or that gentle ...
Pack your sleeping bag, grab your calculator, and celebrate geekdom with this humorous and empowering
middle grade novel by the acclaimed author of Standing for Socks. Nerd Camp, here we come!Ten-year-old Gabe has just been accepted to the Summer Center ...
Hunting—the predator and its prey—is at the heart of this riveting and suspenseful novel from
Newbery Medalist Avi with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca.In the computer game world of Bow Hunter—thirteen-year-old Casey’s world—there are no deaths, just kills. In ...