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   Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann. A bustling college campus has impressive classrooms and other attractive features, but the Frog Fountain, which hasn't seen a live frog in ages, isn't one of them. There is a rumor the college is going to tear it down, and a certain fraternity hasn't been too kind to the fountain to say the least. Yet this fountain is the place where scenes of love—and romantic breakup—take place.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $6.95  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
Barrio Grrrl!	Musical. Book and lyrics by Quiara Alegría Hudes. Music by Bill Sherman. Spunky 9-year-old Ana is faced with a very big decision. On the one hand, as her alter-ego, Barrio Grrrl, with her invisible sidekick, Amazing Voice, she's pretty busy preserving justice in the barrio and protecting her neighborhood. On the other hand, in the world where Ana lives with her abuelo and misses her mom who is far, far away in Iraq, reality is sneaking up on her.  More... Availability: Performance licenses not available yet. Contact the editor for further details..
	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  Sound Clips   Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Geraldine Ann Snyder. This musical, which empowers its young audience to disarm the bullies in their school, is the story of a group of students at Woodruff High and how they learn to deal with the constant and mean-spirited bullying behavior that has become the norm, including cyber-bullying.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  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
Chasing George Washington: A White House Adventure	Sound Clips   Musical. By Karen Zacarías with the young playwrights of Young Playwright's Theater. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. Field trips are fun, especially when your destination is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! In this charming and exciting musical, Dee, José and Annie accidentally knock George Washington out of his portrait and into real life—turning their White House tour into an unexpected adventure.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
Cheaters	Drama. By Don Zolidis. Someone cheated on the test. And if the cheater doesn’t confess, the entire class will fail. Those are the rules set out by the assistant principal and their teacher as the students walk out of the room. Now the entire class is forced to play detective and discover the cheater before it’s too late. But what if everything isn’t as it seems?  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $20.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript 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   Musical. Book by Erica Lipez. Music and lyrics by Matt Corriel. Dickens' beloved parable shines in this adaptation. With a beautiful new score, the characters come to life as never before, from a larger-than-life Ghost of Marley to a heartbreaking Tiny Tim.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  Add to Cart
The Christmas Doll (75-minute musical)	Musical. Book music and lyrics by Joan Cushing. Adapted from the book by Elvira Woodruff. Set in 1840's London, Lucy and Glory Wolcott live at Grimstone Union Public Workhouse at the mercy of the cruel Matron Wick and Mistress Branch. Lucy invents stories about a family she barely remembers and a long lost doll named Morning Glory to humor her sister. When a deadly fever sweeps through the workhouse, the two sisters escape to the mean streets of London, where they encounter many colorful characters.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript 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 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
Don and Wally (A Comedy of an Accidental Visit)	Comedy. By Gordon LePage. Don and Wally, two low-level scouts of the Willandian spy service, are sent on a routine mission to a nearby moon. Through bad luck and very bad navigating, they wander way off course and touch down several galaxies away on planet Earth. Instead of landing on the desert moon and morphing into nomads, they crash-land in New Jersey and morph into fourth-graders who are forced to go to school.  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
Einstein Is a Dummy (large-cast musical)	Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. As an adult, Albert Einstein changed our view of the universe. But as a boy, he struggled with the same issues any 12-year-old might—keeping up with violin lessons, impressing the girl next door and—oh yeah, comprehending the fundamental relationship of space and time to the speed of light, of course.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  Add to Cart
Einstein Is a Dummy (small-cast musical)	Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. As an adult, Albert Einstein changed our view of the universe. But as a boy, he struggled with the same issues any 12-year-old might—keeping up with violin lessons, impressing the girl next door and—oh yeah, comprehending the fundamental relationship of space and time to the speed of light, of course.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $35.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript 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
Frida Libre	Sound Clips   Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. Alex may seem like a quiet, shy boy, but he secretly holds big ideas inside his head. He wants to be a luchador (wrestler) and defeat bad guys in the ring. His life changes when he meets brave and colorful Frida Kahlo, an unusual girl who dreams of being a doctor so she can help people.   More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  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  Sound Clips   Musical comedy. Adapted from Gilbert and Sullivan for younger performers by Lynne Bartlett, David Billings, Mark Leehy and Kevin O'Mara. Able seaman Ralph Rackstraw is love struck with a lass above his station—the captain's daughter. But the captain of the Pinafore has promised his daughter's hand to The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, KBC (First Lord of the Admiralty—followed everywhere by his sisters and his cousins and his aunts).  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama. By Elizabeth Wong. This play is a beautifully lyrical and faithful adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tale. Commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, this spiritually compelling play tells the s  More... Availability: Available Now!  $5.50  Add to Cart
The Happy Prince: A Radio Play (radio manuscript)	Radio drama. By Andrew J. Fenady and Duke Fenady. Based on Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince. For just a moment, close your eyes and—no matter what your age—look through a child's window of imagination. You may see and hear things long ago forgotten. You may cross into that time and place where everything is new and yet familiar—a city where anything can happen, and something wondrous does. High above the city, on a tall column, stands the statue of the bejeweled happy prince overlooking a once shining city whose residents no longer believe in Christmas or themselves.  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.
	Musical. By Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills. Based on the book by Eleanor Estes. Wanda Petronski, a second-grader, lives way up in a shabby house in Boggins Heights, and she doesn't have any friends. Every day she wears a faded blue dress, which wouldn't be too much of a problem if she didn't tell her classmates that she had a hundred dresses at home—all silk, all colors, velvet too.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  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
	Excerpt  Sound Clips   Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Jeremiah Clay Neal. Adapted from the books The Kid Who Ran for President and The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman. Judson Moon is 12 years old, and he's running for president of the YOU-nited States! Sound crazy? His best friend and campaign manager, Lane Brainard, with an emphasis on "Brain," is organizing a political campaign that will change the world as we know it!  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  Add 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.
Looking for Roberto Clemente	Sound Clips   Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. In this rock musical, the year is 1972. The place is Pittsburgh, where legendary baseball player Roberto Clemente is at the top of his game. Sam Kowalski and the neighborhood baseball-playing kids are in an intense competition to win the chance to meet Clemente in person.  More... Availability: This title is not yet in print. Scripts should be available: 06/07/2013.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   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  Sound Clips   Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Michael Tester. It's the Glees versus the Goths, the Drama Queens versus the Jocks in a Senior Superlative showdown! Most Likely To has captured that lightning in a bottle known as the teenage drama queen.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Ric Averill. Sydney is a very bright and precocious girl who lives with her divorced father, loves sports, and is just quirky enough to draw the unwanted attention of the older girls who bully her at school. When an odd scientist, Dr. Entwell, comes to school offering to award a parrot to the student who brings in the greatest "animal oddity," Sydney claims that she has a two-tailed cat.  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   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  Sound Clips   Musical. Book and lyrics by Trish Lindberg. Music by Will Ogmundson with additional music by Cynthia Bizzarro and Kenneth Roberts. Adapted from the book by Eleanor H. Porter. When Pollyanna Whittier finds herself orphaned after her father passes away, she goes to live with her aunt, Miss Polly Harrington, a lonely and bitter middle-aged spinster. Miss Polly's maid, Nancy, befriends Pollyanna, who teaches Nancy her late father's "Glad Game," where there is always "something in everything to be glad about."  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama with music. Book and lyrics by Carol Korty. Music by Shu-Hui Chen. Freely based on "The Young Head of the Family" by Adele M. Fielde. An arranged marriage of a young woman, Precious Jade, is brokered to help solve the problems of a floundering family in rural southern China at the end of the 19th century. Precious Jade, a spirited girl, is determined to find a way to make life interesting and bearable in this highly structured society.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.25  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
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Dan Dietz. When a nuclear apocalypse hits on prom night, there are only four survivors: a cruel and popular cheerleader, a music-obsessed emo boy, the star quarterback, and his socially hopeless geek sister. Trapped in a high-school basement, these four kids are forced to socialize with the very people they wouldn't have been caught dead with just hours earlier.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $6.95  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
	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   Drama. By Laurie Brooks. On the wild rocky islands north of Scotland it is told round the peat fires that the selkies transform into beautiful lasses on Midsummer's Eve and dance on the beach, celebrating the dual nature of the seal people—land and sea. Selkie chronicles the story of 16-year-old Elin Jean as she discovers a hidden pelt that unlocks a mystery foretold and is set on a path to find "the knowin'" she desperately seeks.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $6.95  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   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   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   Comedy/Drama. By Ric Averill. Roxxi loves gross foods. She loves them so much that she wants to start a restaurant of things no one else would eat. She'd really like to win a Wrigley's Believe It or Else record for cooking and eating the most gross things.  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  Sound Clips   Musical. Book and lyrics by Jennifer Kirkeby. Music by Shirley Mier. Based on the poem by Clement C. Moore. It's four days before Christmas, and the New York Evening Post needs a holiday feature story. President James Monroe is counting on reading it to his family on Christmas Day. But writer Clement Moore has writer's block. Besides that, he must work at home amongst his five children who are, needless to say, very anxious for St. Nicholas to arrive. Clement's frustration mounts—then the magic begins.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $9.50  Add 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
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.