D Is for Drama

Written by Jo Whittemore

Passed over for the lead, a drama student lets her family believe otherwise and stages her own show.

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272 pages· 47,577 words· Est. 5.5 hour read· ~620L· AR 4 · 7 AR pts

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Bookroo's summary

Sunny Kim is tired of one-line parts at Carnegie Arts Academy, but even after a summer with an acting coach she doesn't win the lead in the school's Mary Poppins. Worse, her whole family, including her former-actress mother, thinks she did. Sunny talks her theater adviser into letting her put on a one-woman show, until her friends who never make the playbill all want to join in.

From the publisher

A lead role means lots of drama in this sparkling story of one tween's efforts to shine in the spotlight. Sunny Kim is done with one-line roles at Carnegie Arts Academy--she's ready for the lead. But even after a summer of studying with an acting coach, Sunny doesn't snag the role of Mary Poppins in her school's upcoming production. Unfortunately, her entire family mistakenly thinks otherwise, including her former-actress mother. Desperate for a solution, Sunny convinces her theater adviser to let her produce a one-woman show. But when the rest of her friends find out--the friends that never seem to make the playbill either--they all want to join in. Before long, Sunny is knee-deep in curtains, catfights, and chorus lines as her one-woman work turns into a staging of the hit musical Wicked. And when a terrible misunderstanding pits the entire cast against Sunny, can the show--and Sunny's future acting career--be saved in time for opening night?

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