A teenage girl moves with her family from New York City to a suburb in New Jersey. She wants to become the most popular girl in her new school.

Presents over 125 activities and projects for creative fun with young children, including storybook play, cooking, costumes and masks, puppets, fingerpaints, games, and mini-plays.

With a kid friendly format, this book offers a concise introduction to performance and design elements of the theater. Suggests ways for young actors to use their dramatic talents in mime, clowning, dance, puppetry, and theatrical forms from readers' theater to Shakespearean tragedy, and offers sample scripts and advice on stagecraft. Includes information on drama, comedy and tragedy; clowning and puppetry; set design and costumes, and much more.

This book provides a wealth of enactment techniques that help students apply their social, physical, and intellectual selves to the books they read in order to improve their comprehension.

Contains more than three hundred dramatic play activities designed to teach pre-reading skills to preschoolers, arranged in eight thematic categories: occupations, home, nature, science, stores, transportation, performers, and reading, writing, and talking.

Drama that delivers: real-life problems, students' solutions. Includes bibliographical references.