Frank Carlson Library

A hot new reality show, The real teachers of Ella Mentry, is filming at school, and everybody wants to win the show's grand prize.

Celebrate Halloween with a play! What's the best thing about Halloween? Will and Kyrsten would say candy. But James and Emma would say getting scared! Just in time for the spooky holiday, the old Miller mansion has a new resident. Is it a ghost? or a Ghoul? Or something none of the kids could even imagine? Discover everything you need to put a readers' theatre, advanced readers' theater, or full production with this guide and readers' theater script....

Provides instructions and guidance on putting on a children's play about two boys tasked with planning the St. Patrick's Day fund-raiser.

Explains what is needed to put on a play, and provides the script for a Thanksgiving-themed play. Maddy adores Thanksgiving--family, Grandpa's mashed potatoes, even a treasure hunt and roasting marshmallows--tradition is everything. But this year, her parents have different plans. Can Maddy learn to love her favorite holiday in a new way?

Provides instructions and guidance on putting on a children's play about a group of kids who decide their class pet, Gus the guinea pig, can forecast the weather just as well as any groundhog.

"Babymouse joins the school Film Club and writes the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all time! But when the movie gets shown to the entire school, will it be a box office hit or a flop?"-- Wanting to stand out from her zombie peers, who aspire to have fashionable sandals and cool lip gloss, Babymouse joins the film club, an endeavor that turns out to be more challenging than anticipated.

Gracie the pig has a part in a movie with with Tilda Swinetune, the champion swim racer and movie star, but she is upset when she realizes she is just a stunt double--however a small change in the script makes her able to do that and also fulfill her dream with a part of her own.

When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.

Director Billy Waddler is trying to film a documentary about moose, but the moose in question has no intention of spending his life in the woods and his animal friends, who have dreams of their own, help him prove his point.

While spending winter break at a ski lodge, beginning-skier Katie finds herself in some very complicated situations when the magic wind turns her into the ski instructor.