Round Rock Public Library

While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class.

"It's spring break, and Stink is faced with a difficult choice: hang out at home with his sister Judy, or become a Shakespeare Sprite with his friend Sophie of the Elves. Hanged be! When Sophie tells Stink that there will be swordplay and cursing at Shakespeare camp, his choice is made. But wait! How now? The eager young thespian hadn't counted on Riley Rottenberger being a Sprite, too. And he positively had not counted on being the only boy. Fie...

Jules is an ordinary seven-year-old girl, concerned with school and friends and other ordinary things--until a chance meeting with a casting director leads to an audition for a television commercial.

Brittany Rush expects the spotlight to shine on her again when she returns to New York after a year spent with her family in Hong Kong, but instead finds that she has changed from being a cute kid to watch out for to just another pretty girl waiting her turn.

Isabel Marak Flores consider herself a serious actress but to earn money for tuition she does a commercial spot for the drink, Happy Wow, that will air only in Japan. But then she learns that the drink is coming to America--and her face is about to be plastered on billboards, displayed in magazines and looped endlessly on television. Can a serious actress learn how to relax and enjoy things during a brief dramatic pause?

In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.

"Red Riding Hood is thrilled to try out for the school play. Acting is her dream, and she's great at it--too bad she has stage fright! After a grimmiserable audition, Red decides to focus on helping her friends Cinda, Snow, and Rapunzel save Grimm Academy from the E.V.I.L. Society. But when Red gets lost in Neverwood forest and runs into Wolfgang, who might be part of E.V.I.L., she needs her magic basket and a grimmazingly dramatic performance to...

Young actress Cassie Herold longs for her family and social life to resemble life in a commercial.

In 1938, twelve-year-old William has already decided to leave home when his younger sister informs him that she and their brother and sister are going too, and right away, but complications arise when an acquaintance decides to "help" them.

Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she doesn't get a part in the school play she wonders if it's because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so she becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.