Acting Out: Six One-Act Plays! Six Newbery Stars!

[kellyrfineman]

This post is part of today's One Shot Recs Over the Fence, organized by Colleen Mondor at Chasing Ray. Some of you may recall that I reviewed this book before. The point of today's One Shot Recs is to draw attention to excellent books that, for one reason or another, seem not to have garnered quite the level of discussion or success that they are

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[tracyworld]

What a great idea. I'm going to check out this book. Thank you!

[kellyrfineman]

You are most welcome. It's really entertaining just as reading, but would be great fun with kids, I think.

Tanita Says :)

[anonymous]

This sounds like a total hoot!

Re: Tanita Says :)

[kellyrfineman]

It's quite good - some of the plays are funny, and some are not, but they are all well-crafted and interesting. I highly recommend it.

[mreader]

I'm convinced to look for it. I'm thinking a Girl Scout drama badge...

[kellyrfineman]

It would be great for that. Even apart from that, it's great for the writing/plays. And the tie-ins with some of them as a potential literacy unit are pretty great, too, if I'm being honest.

[kellyrfineman]

Ahahaha!

[kellyrfineman]

It is really, truly excellent. And will have you wanting to write a play.