Excerpt   Comedy. By Michael Gravois. When Aesop's fables are given a holiday spin, you'll get a mash-up of The Twelve Days of Christmas and The Tortoise and the Hare … A dozen vignettes illuminate important life lessons by reinventing the classic fables, blending humor, rhythmic elements, rapping, puppetry, poetry, song and storytelling to create a fast-paced, fun-filled show that's filled with Christmas spirit.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Laurie Brooks. How do we combat the current epidemic of prejudice and bullying of gay high-school students? One way is to use the power of storytelling to humanize the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens. Designed to be performed by and for high-school students, All of Us raises awareness of the discrimination, hatred and violence  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
ARK 5	Drama. By Sandra Fenichel Asher. The ARK System began taking control of Earth Enterprise in 2050 A.D. as a technical aid to global commerce. As the play begins in 2129, the power of its Triumvirate, and particularly of Petra, its founder, is nearly absolute. People world over enjoy "contentment"—sheltered,  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Comedy/Farce. By Anne Flanagan. Struggling artist Payne Showers finally gets his Big Break. He dies. Fortunately, Payne's death greatly inflates the value of his work. Unfortunately, his estranged wife, Maggie, must sell it all to avoid bankruptcy. Just days before the auction,  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy/Drama. By Laurie Brooks. In a fantastical world (not entirely unlike our own) where "conformity is compulsory," Boy cannot conform. Others make a desperate attempt to fix him, but neither they nor he can change his nature. Labeled a monster by the experts, Boy is shunned until, heartbroken and alone, he disappears into a world of monsters.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Barbara Wiechmann. It is 1910. Annabelle, a quiet 11-year-old, and her depressed and lonely great-aunt Leaf develop a secret ritual of storytelling. Each night the old lady sends the child into the woods to look for the ghost of her dead husband.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $6.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama/Comedy. By Jim Knable. Becky and her embarrassingly over-the-top father, Roy, have never gotten along, so when she brings her first high-school boyfriend home to meet him, the last thing she expects it to be is the best mistake she has ever made. When Roy becomes a hero to boyfriend, Will, things look bad.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Radio comedy. By Andrew J. Fenady and Duke Fenady. Based on the novella by Andrew J. Fenady. With songs and smoking six-shooters, we're here to tell the adventures and misadventures of two cattle barons and, most especially, of a beautiful young lady in search of … well, not the usual kind of gold in them thar hills. Is this a musical? Nope. But somewhat like Cat Ballou, Paint Your Wagon and a lot of John Ford westerns,  More... Availability: Available Now!  $12.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Richard Vetere. The Queen of Starlings has decided to bully all the other birds in order to steal their food and take away their nesting homes. Everyone, including wise Shriek Owl, Robin, Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Blue Jay, and two sparrows, Pretty and Gino, are ready to fly away instead of facing the intimidating, sleek, British-speaking starlings.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Mystery/Comedy. By Ed Sala. A group of the usual British murder-mystery types gather for a weekend retreat at the sumptuous country estate of the esteemed Lady Somerset. There's the major who served in India; the inebriated, fading actor; the innocent ingénue; the exotic lady in red; the mysterious Chinese gentleman; the rich dowager aunt; and her faithful maid and worthless nephew. Suddenly, one of them dies of poison!  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Drama/Comedy. Written by Sandra Fenichel Asher, Cherie Bennett, Max Bush, José Casas, Gloria Bond Clunie, Eric Coble, Doug Cooney, Linda Daugherty, Lisa Dillman, Richard Dresser, José Cruz González, Stephen Gregg, D.W. Gregory, Brian Guehring, Dwayne Hartford, Barry Kornhauser, Trish Lindberg, Brett Neveu, Ernie Nolan, R.N. Sandberg, Geraldine Ann Snyder, Werner Trieschmann, Elizabeth Wong and Y York. Compiled and edited by Linda Habjan. The Bully Plays were commissioned in response to the growing epidemic of bullying and the all-too-often tragic results. This anthology includes 24 10-minute plays that can be performed in any combination or length and in a variety of venues. The plays are touching, imaginative, powerful, uplifting and funny.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Kathleen Cahill. Told in the style of magical realism, Charm presents the story of an extraordinary woman: the brilliant, but forgotten, American writer and feminist, Margaret Fuller, who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece The Scarlet Letter. Set in an imagined America of the 1840s, the play portrays Margaret's emotional journey from a plain, bookish young woman suffering unrequited love for her handsome cousin to the confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau and the New York Tribune's first female war correspondent, writing dispatches from the front lines of the Italian revolution.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
Cherokee Family Reunion	Comedy/Drama. By Larissa FastHorse. Inspired by the memoirs of Henry S. Timberlake. This modern-day Brady Bunch blends two nearly grown families when a Cherokee man, John, and a white woman, Emma, get married and move into his small community, surrounded by his family. Before the wedding decorations are down, the two groups are thrown into planning the biggest family reunion in Cherokee N.C., complete with a historical reenactment!  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. We do not have a pre-publication manuscript at this time. Contact the editor for further details.
	Excerpt   Comedy with music. By Barry Kornhauser. Adapted from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Optional music by Scott DePoy. This is a multi-sensory, highly interactive Theatre for Very Young Audiences piece, its words and actions inspired by the classic book of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. A few actors and a musician, puppetry and play, help audiences grow a garden and their imaginations as they frolic in the leaves, feed a bird, sing in the rain, dance with the wind, build a boat, and discover treasures, including the greatest of them all—friendship.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Joanna H. Kraus. Feisty 14-year-old Christabel loves working backstage on the lighting crew. As she stands on a 20-foot extension ladder finishing lights for her school's spring production, she loses her balance, misses a rung on the ladder and steps into thin air. Weeks later, awakening from a coma, her legs don't move. Despite multiple surgeries, Christabel is paralyzed from the waist down. Though she is surrounded by the support of her family and friends, Christabel is discouraged and embittered and believes her life is over.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Erin Rachel Kaplan. Collateral Bodies explores the human rights violations that happen specifically to women, also known as "femicide." The experiences these women relate are experiences that are currently being lived by many in places all over our world: sex-trafficking, rape, female circumcision, bride burning, domestic violence and incarceration.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
The Color of Stars	Drama. By Dwayne Hartford. Set in Maine during World War II, The Color of Stars is a story of family, patriotism, fear and prejudice. Eleven-year-old Eddie Winthrop has been sent to live with his grandparents on the family farm. Eddie's father is fighting in the Pacific. His mother works at a shipyard and is concerned that Eddie needs more adult supervision.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Drama. By Jeb Rosebrook. Adapted from his episode of the same title for "The Waltons" television series. This play is based on true events occurring in the 1930s when federally funded road construction for Virginia's Blue Ridge Parkway legally forced many families in those mountains from their homes. The Walton family and their eldest son, John Boy, are summoned by a Walton matriarch,  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Eddie Zipperer. Atlas, arguing monkeys, a real estate angel, Sherlock Holmes, and even a golfing God show up in this surreal collection of short comedies.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt  Free Poster   Drama. Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus. From the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This new, award-winning adaptation of Dostoyevsky's literary masterpiece Crime and Punishment is told by three actors playing Raskolnikov (the murderer), Porfiry Petrovitch (the detective), S  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.25  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Mariah L. Richardson. Eight-year-old Delilah sits in her favorite tree in Old North St. Louis, the tree she and Momma tied a bow on for Christmas just before she was deployed to Iraq. She sits for as long as Grandmomma lets her. She watches her neighbors and what's happening on her block. Who keeps stealing Mr. Horowitz's newspaper?  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
Does My Head Look Big in This?	Drama. By Jeff Gottesfeld and Elizabeth Wong. Based on the award-winning young adult novel by Randa Abdel-Fattah. High school is tough enough without throwing a hijab into the mix! Amal is a typical American suburban teenager at a typical American high school. She has a crush on a boy, dreams about her first kiss, and loves shopping, Twitter and Facebook. Funny and irreverent, Amal has a comeback for everything and everyone. Then one day, Amal surprises herself, her parents, her friends and school administrators when she shows up at school wearing a hijab headscarf.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Drama. By Y York. Inspired by the life and art of Della Wells. Nine-year-old Tonia Bridge is growing up in a working-class, African-American home in Milwaukee in 1964. Young Tonia's artistic soul is at odds with her parents' fears and pragmatism. Her efforts to please and appease them are in conflict with her own needs and desires.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Drama. By Suzan L. Zeder. In Doors, a son copes with his parents' divorce. It is the day of his parents' separation. Before Jeff can deal with the impending divorce, he must face and play out his fears and his fantasi  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Y York. Based on the novel by Jerry Spinelli. David has designed the perfect deal with the universe to ensure the return of his dead mother: to reach his mother "on the other side," all David has to do is enlist the help of the weirdly obtuse Pri  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
The Elopement of Megan O'Flagherty With the Ghost From Tinkers' Hollow	Comedy/Drama. By Michael Johnson. The year is 1900. We're in a tiny, impoverished village in Connemara, Ireland, its remoteness continually punished by sleet, cold rains and howling gales. Megan O'Flagherty, a young, plain barmaid in a local pub is to be married in four days to the village braggart. But all changes in the most unforeseen way. Megan hears a voice whisper to her from the shadows in the pub.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. We do not have a pre-publication manuscript at this time. Contact the editor for further details.
	Excerpt   Drama/Comedy. By Bonnie Roberts. Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. WWI has ended, and in England of 1922, everyday life is slowly settling back to normal after the horrors of war. But it has been raining for days in London, and women and men have time on their hands to contemplate their unhappy lives.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Ernie Nolan. This fantastical tale weaves together biographical elements of Hans Christian Andersen's childhood with his famous stories: The Nightingale, Thumbelina, The Swineherd and many more! Seventeen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, the son of a simple shoemaker, is a real-life ugly duckling dreaming of the day he will become famous.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
The Far-Fetched Fable of the Frog Prince: How a Prince Became a Frog and Starred in the School Play	Excerpt   Comedy. By Jennifer Kirkeby. You know the original story. A princess drops her golden ball into a well. A frog makes her a deal that he'll dive into the well and return her ball if she will promise to be his friend for always. The princess makes the promise. But when the frog gives her the ball back, the princess runs off without a second thought. In The Far-Fetched Fable of the Frog Prince, we discover why the frog (who's really a prince, by the way) got turned into a frog in the first place.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life	Drama. By Sarah Gubbins. It's Jo's junior year of high school in LaGrange, Illinois, which can only be described as "fml." She is busy fending off suburban boredom and navigating an ambiguous relationship with Emma, the new transfer student, when a new English teacher assigns Carson McCullers' famed novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Christina M. Ham. Every child imagines what they want to be when they grow up. The four little girls who attended the 16th Street Baptist Church were no exception. Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963 centers on Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, four little girls who are multitalented and bursting with promise and who share their hopes and dreams against the backdrop of the civil rights movement.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Y York. Adapted from the Newbery Honor Book by Audrey Couloumbis. Twelve-year-old Willa Jo Dean and 7-year-old Little Sister Dean are reeling from the death of their baby sister, Baby. Little Sister's torment is so profound that she has stopped talking.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Tommy Lee Johnston. Mr. Jenks revisits his high-school alma mater as a substitute teacher for a class of highly gifted students. Discovering the passage of time hasn't erased his own painful experiences as a bully, he now faces a class of kids whose lives and experiences all too closely resemble those of the very students he taunted.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Lois Lowry. Adapted from her book by the same title. This fanciful and poignant play explores the power of dreams and the magical creatures that create them. An eager new dream-giver known only as Littlest One struggles to heal the hearts of an abused young boy, his grieving caregiver and his estranged mother before the haunting memories each of them carry become more than they can bear.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Arlene Hutton. We drop in on the lives of sixth-graders in the thick of heartache, heartbreak and homework in this funny/sad story about disappointment, friendship and reality TV. Smart, socially hopeless Jacob wants nothing more than for his father to come home from an overseas deployment in time for his birthday party. His good-natured, troublemaking best friend, Chris, wants nothing more than to do explosive  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By James Still. Focusing on the theatricality and humanity of Lincoln's second year in the White House (1862), The Heavens Are Hung in Black is a fevered, emotional epic about a U.S. president who read the Book of Job and the plays of Shakespeare, had the saddest face ever painted, openly wept in public, and led this country in a war that we're still fighting today. We see everything through Lincoln's eyes and his haunted dreams:  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Julian Wiles. Helium is the moving and uplifting story of a brilliant, humorous and creative chemistry teacher who braves the trials of frailty and aging, all the while keeping her imagination, charm and dignity intact. "Hysterium" and "preposterous" are two of the imaginary elements  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
High School Confidential	Comedy/Drama with songs. By Dan Ahearn and Janet Reed. Music and lyrics by Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth. Take a group of high-school students waiting at the bus stop on a Monday morning after a crazy weekend and watch the hilarity and anxiety explode due to unreturned texts from a girlfriend, parental pressures, friendship tensions, fashion mistakes that have "loser" written all over them, athletic ambitions and academic terrors.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
Honus and Me	Adventure/Comedy. By Steven Dietz. Based on the book by Dan Gutman. Honus and Me is a theatrical and entertaining baseball-card adventure. Ten-year-old Joey Stoshack is the worst hitter on his Little League team. Then one day he finds the most valuable baseball card in the world:  the Honus Wagner T-26 printed in 1909. To his surprise, this card works like a time machine  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
Huckleberry in Love	Comedy/Drama. By Michael Johnson. Inspired by and borrowed from Mark Twain and William Shakespeare. A story to prove that love's cosmic lightning can cleave the most ornery of hearts, Huckleberry in Love tells of two crazily star-crossed lovers, Huck Finn (the river-rat son of a drowned deadbeat drunk) and Petunia Pringle (the befreckled bookworm daughter of an eminent St. Louis judge).  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. We do not have a pre-publication manuscript at this time. Contact the editor for further details.
An Identified Enemy	Drama. By Max Bush. In 2009, Jamie Foster, age 23, an Iraq war veteran now enrolled in a university, tries to piece together the truth about what happened one day in Baghdad with his friend Jalil, a local Iraqi national. In flashbacks to 2007, during "The Surge," we see the developing friendship between the 20-year-old American Army Private Foster and 21-year-old Jalil Khaifa Al-Majid, who operated as a street vendor just outside the patrol base. Jamie replays scenes from that day over and over,  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Drama. By Kent R. Brown. Early one September morning, in an isolated farmhouse in the middle of rural Nebraska, Rebecca Pender peeks out her bedroom window and sees a vision of the end of the world. The next day, she and her husband, Lucas, stand transfixed as they witness the collapse of the World Trade Center. Insidiously, the trauma of 9/11 unlocks within Rebecca's psyche a Pandora's box of repressed fears.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.25  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Colleen Neuman. Vanessa lives with her mother, who seems too busy to listen to her and calls Vanessa's beloved collection of stuff a "pile of junk." Vanessa uses her stuff—keys, string, wire, cardboard, broken flashlights, old radios—to create inventions and to make up stories. There is one more treasure she keeps in her room: her father. Vanessa's father died last year,  More... Availability: Available Now!  $6.95  Add to Cart
Jackie and Me	Adventure/Comedy. By Steven Dietz. Adapted from the book by Dan Gutman. Ten-year-old Joey Stoshack is a headstrong young boy with a special talent for time travel. When Joey is assigned to write a report on an African American who has made an important contribution to society, he uses his special ability to go back to Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. There he meets one of baseball's greatest players, Jackie Robinson.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
A Lonely Boy's Guide to Survival (and Werewolves)	Comedy. By Ernie Nolan. It's 1954, and even though he has just become a Badger Scout, young Skipper McCready's life is a big mess. His grumpy next-door neighbor is upset with him all the time; his friend Sally Ann is obsessed with being a girl detective; and his best friend, Lucky, a dog, has gone missing. To top it all off, his mother wants him to befriend the new weird kid  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Ric Averill. To feed his family, save the valley and recover his abuelo's (grandfather's) heritage, Pedro must prove he is the greatest trickster of all times. With the help of a pair of zapatos magicos (magic shoes)—"no matter where you go, the shoes will return you home"—  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Tammy Ryan. In the early '90s in Sudan after civil war destroyed their villages, an exodus of boys trekked 800 miles across Africa until making it to refugee camps in Kenya, where they lived on a bowl of grain a day for 10 years. In 2001, the U.S. resettled 3,600 of these "lost boys" in cities across America. Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods tells the story of Christine, a recently divorced "East Ender" from Pittsburgh, who meets Gabriel, a former "lost boy" working in the produce section of Whole Foods.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Ramon Esquivel. Soledad is the daughter of migrant farm workers. Because her papá and mamá go where the work goes, Soledad is constantly changing homes, and she is the new girl at one school after another.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy/Drama. Adapted by Mountain Community Theater from the novel by Valentine Davies. Based upon the Twentieth Century Fox motion picture Miracle on 34th Street. "This is a tale that we want to believe in, that creates a world we seem to desperately desire, free of the blatant commercialism that surrounds us, where love and decency and generosity of spirit are their own rewards. What we want Christmas to be all about, really." So writes the Santa Cruz Sentinel of this most heartwarming holiday story.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.25  Add to Cart
My Fair Share of the Sun	Drama. By Gordon LePage. Uncle Fy and his niece Zoe plant 14 white birches along the lonely dirt road to his cabin in the woods. Shortly thereafter, a violent storm destroys the house and uproots the elder trees, who were the  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Drama. By Ramon Esquivel Nasty combines realism and fantasy to explore friendships, identity and bullying in the context of social networking sites, chat rooms, blogs, tweets, videos, and role-playing games on the Internet. Offline, they are Lencha, Zoe, Martha, and Manuel, teenagers who stress about school, obsess over crushes, and make one another laugh. Online, they are  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. Adapted by Ann H. Brockette. Intrigue, pride, political power, love—the story of Oedipus holds multiple options for interpretation. Oedipus: A Story of Gold and Shadow focuses on hubris—the pride that drives us to overstep boundaries and take on roles that have not been allotted to us. Oedipus is often cast as a story of misplaced love. This adaptation is a story of a great man, savior of Thebes, who pays the ultimate price for trying to outsmart the gods.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
Oz (revised version - manuscript)	Excerpt   Comedy. By Patrick Shanahan. L. Frank Baum is in trouble—forty-four years old and on the eve of his greatest creative work—he is a "jack of all trades" but success eludes him. It is 1899 in Chicago and Baum is putting the finishing touches on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but putting dreams on paper is elusive business and Baum is struggling with  More... Availability: Available Now!  $35.00  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Chris Weikel. Penny Penniworth is a labyrinthine romp through 19th-century English literature as presented by a severely short-staffed theatre troupe with Royal Shakespeare Company pretensions that decides to produce a "lost" Dickens epic. The eponymous Penny, a down-on-her-luck Dickensian waif, deprived of her fortune and her country estate by the untimely death of her hapless father (her father's name is actually Hapless, as it happens),  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Docudrama. By Ed Simpson. The February 1960 sit-in by four young college freshmen at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, galvanized the civil rights movement in the United States. In the process, ordinary citizens from both the black and white communities in Greensboro—and across America—were forced to grapple with their beliefs about race and justice.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Kathleen Cahill. The 13th-century Persian poet, Rumi, invites us to ride with him on a Persian carpet of history. He introduces us to two American diplomats, Ann and Mike, stationed in Iran in 1979, just as the mullahs under Ayatollah Khomeini are coming to power and the Iranian Revolution is gaining strength.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Fantasy/Drama/Comedy. By Sandra Fenichel Asher. Adapted from the novel by George MacDonald. Princess Irene is kept in near isolation in a secluded mountain house with her nursemaid, Lootie, as her main source of company. In spite of her loving father's occasional visits and concern for her well-being, Irene longs for connection—to her distant father; to the memory of her dead mother; to her forbidden commoner friend, Curdie  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
River Rat and Cat (touring) (ms)	Excerpt   Comedy. By Y York. No one has ever understood the mysterious friendship of River Rat and Cat. From the day fastidious River Rat hauled a drowning sodden Cat from a sinking basket (thinking Cat was some unique collectible).  More... Availability: Available Now!  $35.00  Add to Cart
Rumble Fish (Brooks)	Drama. By Laurie Brooks. Based on the novel by S.E. Hinton. Is middle school really so different now than it was in the '70s? The search for belonging and recognition among peer groups remains at the heart of coming of age. The journey that S.E. Hinton's anti-hero, Rusty-James, takes in her iconic young adult novel is as relevant for young people today as it was when it was first published.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. We do not have a pre-publication manuscript at this time. Contact the editor for further details.
	Excerpt   Drama. By Mat Smart. Samuel J. surprises his adopted brother, Samuel K., with a trip back to his birth country of Cameroon for college graduation, but Samuel K. has no desire to face a place and a past that abandoned him.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy/Drama. By Pamela Parker. It was a simpler time in the late 1940s, especially in South Georgia and specifically in a sleepy little town called Second Samuel. What had been called the Great Depression was quickly fading into memory. The war had been won, the election was now over, and "Give 'em Hell Harry" was still president.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   A comedy with music by Ernie Nolan. Professor TJ Barker and his troupe of traveling theatricals have just arrived at the theatre to begin a performance of their spectacular production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when they realize something is amiss. Not only has the orchestra not arrived, but five of the hilarious O'Hanlon brothers have been stricken with food poisoning leaving only … gasp … two actors to play dwarfs!  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Fairy tale. Adapted by Max Bush. Based on the Olenberg manuscript and early versions of the Brothers Grimm tale. This version of Snow White is based on the oral story as it was told to the Brothers Grimm in 1808. It contains many of the familiar elements—the seven dwarves, mirror, bodice and apple, the glass coffin—but also differs from the Grimms' later versions  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Horror/Comedy. By Mitch Brian. It's 1987 and the totally tubular sorority sisters of Delta Pi Sigma are looking for new blood. When "brainiac" Tonya, "Madonnawannabe" Deb and "working girl" Janet enter the rush party of their "own free will," they soon discover that the sisters are "like, totally vampires"  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Suzanne Lebeau. Elikia is a child, among so many others, who has seen her life overturned from one day to the next in a chaotic, lawless civil war. The girl, kidnapped from her family, becomes a child soldier. She is a victim, but she is also an executioner in an untenable situation that blurs the most elementary laws of ethics.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Chris Mathews, Jake Minton and Nathan Allen. Ten years ago Emily Book, the lone survivor of a horrible school bus accident, was sent away from the tiny town of Spring Farm. Now, in her senior year, Emily must return in order to graduate from high school. When she arrives, shy and guarded, Emily is unwillingly thrust into the whirlwind of Spring Farm High.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Ira Hauptman. In Starry Messenger we witness the effects of Galileo's ordeals on his family and his family's role in his decision to renounce his discoveries. Cardinals Borgia and Zacchia of the Inquisition warn Galileo not to try to prove that the earth revolves around the sun.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Stacey Lane. You know the old woman who lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do. But did you know that her children are Jack, Jill, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Hansel, Gretel and that lamb-loving Mary? Joining this energetic romp through the enchanted forest are Little Miss Muffet, the Big Bad Wolf, the Gingerbread Man, Puss in Boots, and more of your fairy tale favorites.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama/Comedy. By Larissa FastHorse. Original music by Brian Joseph. Kenny Two Hawks and Martin Leads to Water have problems. It's the end of middle school, and Kenny is on the brink of not making it into high school. Through a random drawing, the boys are assigned bizarre topics for their last middle-school presentation: Do It Yourself Disco and Teaching Square Dancing to Senior Citizens. Enter Amanda Smith,  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
Ten 10-Minute Scenes for Teens	Comedy/Drama. By Jennifer Kirkeby. Characters laugh, cry, fume, love, hate, plead and question life and death, good and bad in this collection of plays woven with humor and heart.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
Theory of Mind	Drama. By Ken LaZebnik. Autism makes social interactions challenging. Imagine, then, a high-school senior on the autism spectrum who desperately wants a girlfriend—and misreads just about every social cue she gives him. Theory of Mind is Bill's journey as he takes Hilo out on a date, with hilarious, touching and profound insights about identity, what it means to be on the autism spectrum, and love.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Drama. By Joseph Robinette and Ron Jones. The Third Wave is a true story about a high-school experiment in fascism that went out of control. Set in 1967 in Palo Alto, California, during the Viet Nam war, racial integration and social revolution, the play centers around a young, popular teacher, Ron Jones, and his World History class.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Eric Lane. This award-winning play beautifully examines the changing American landscape. It tells the story of one woman's struggles set against the backdrop of four wars—from World War II to the present.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Gabriel Jason Dean. It's Halloween in Southern California, the Santa Ana winds blow fiercely and nothing is as it seems. Doodle Pequeño and his Mamá recently moved across the city to a cramped apartment in a quadruplex after Papá was deported to Mexico. Anxious to trick-or-treat, Doodle comes home from school to discover  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Adventure. By Max Bush. Adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Sixteen-year-old Jim Hawkins' adventure begins when Billy Bones, the old sea-dog captain, appears one morning in the Admiral Benbow Inn. Billy Bones admits to Jim he was Flint the pirate's first mate and that he holds Flint's map that shows where his treasure is hidden. Bill's got the shakes because the rest of Flint's crew is coming for him. Jim takes the map, eludes the pirates, and sets his course for adventure.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.25  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Ric Averill. Nothing is going well for Marta. She's competing with her best friend, Kelly, for the role of Gerda in a dance production of The Snow Queen at their local arts center. She now only speaks to  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
Under a Midsummer Moon	Drama. By Claudia Haas. It's the summer of 1969. Cities are crumbling, and the country is divided about the Vietnam War and the crushing economy. As the country prepares for the Apollo 11 moon landing, young people gather in a park to play, to protest and to work.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Fantasy. By Philip Grecian. From the book by Margery Williams. "There are two ways to be real," the Skin Horse says. "The first is when you are real to one special child, and the second is when you are real to the world." More than anything he wants to be a real  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.25  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Bilingual Drama/Comedy. By Andrea Moon. Conceived by Andrea Moon and Samantha Provenzano. When Beatriz slams into her room to escape yet another fight between her parents she turns to Beatrizita, a doll made for her by her recently deceased abuela, for comfort. Beatrizita magically comes to life and sends Beatriz searching for her abuela in Dreamland with nothing but a blank map to guide her.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
Walking Toward America	Drama. By Sandra Fenichel Asher. Adapted from the memoirs of Ilga Katais-Paeglis Vise. On the eve of a three-generational pilgrimage back to her Latvian homeland, Ilga speaks to her grandchildren about their great-grandparents. Her memories become the action of the play, all seen through her eyes at ages 4, 10 and nearly 17. At the center of her narrative is the winter of 1944–1945, when 10-year-old Ilga and her parents leave Riga, Latvia, to escape the Russian occupation of their city.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Mystery. Adapted by Darian Lindle. From the Newbery Award-winning novel by Ellen Raskin. The unsuspecting residents of Sunset Towers are summoned to the reading of a mysterious will, only to find themselves locked in a thrilling game, as they must discover who is responsible for killing an eccentric millionaire.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Darrah Cloud. Thirteen-year-old Greg Samsa wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned into a giant cockroach. His mother, in a panic, dials 911, thus beginning his adventures as they search for a cure for his "disease." What will he tell his friends? How can he face his schoolmates? Can he still perform the lead in his school play? Will his mom ever hug him again?  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.95  Add to Cart
With Two Wings	Drama. By Anne Negri. In a fantasy world where people have wings, a young boy named Lyf lives an isolated existence with his parents in the safe nest of their home deep in the woods. Although loving, Lyf’s parents have strict rules he must follow about avoiding strangers, covering his wings with a cloak and always observing rule number one: never, ever try to fly. One day a precocious, inquisitive girl from the outside world, Meta, bursts into the backyard,  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. We do not have a pre-publication manuscript at this time. Contact the editor for further details.