Upstaged by Asher, Diana Harmon 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 072797 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
F&P: V

Genres: Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Theater - Fiction Musicals - Fiction Shyness - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: Painfully shy seventh-grader Shira Gordon is cast in a small role in The Music Man and also as understudy for the lead, played by diva Monica Manley, who becomes the victim of a prankster.

Violet and the pie of life by Green, D. L. 

Paperback(Holiday House, 2021)

BTSB #: 397181 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Theater - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction Mathematics - Fiction

Summary: When twelve-year-old Violet's dad walks out, she faces the aftermath the only way she knows how: with pie and math. But family and friendship turn out to have are more variables than she thought.

Violets are blue by Dee, Barbara 

Paperback(Aladdin, 2022)

BTSB #: 268164 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 4.4 MG Lexile: 630

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Makeup artists - Fiction Theatrical makeup - Fiction Theater - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Remarriage - Fiction Moving - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Wren, who is learning special effects makeup, is thrilled to be makeup artist for her new school's production of Wicked, but her parents' divorce is seriously affecting her mother.

Year of the dog : a novel by Lin, Grace 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2018)

BTSB #: 573820 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 5.2 3-5 Lexile: 690 F&P: Q

Genres: Holidays Family Life

Subjects: Taiwanese Americans - Fiction School stories Chinese New Year - Fiction Family life - Fiction Contests - Fiction Theater - Fiction

Summary: A young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.