On Stage - Performance and Performing for Young Adults
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Books for young adults about performance, performers, and being on stage. Mostly fiction, some nonfiction at the end of each section.
Article in the Themes and Category:Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
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Dance
- Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, by Dorian Cirrone
- The Melting Season, by Celeste Conway
- Dancer, by Lorri Hewett
- House of Dance, by Beth Kephart
- Confessions of a Backup Dancer, by Anonymous, as told to Tucker Shaw
- Another way to dance, by Martha Southgate
- Poor Dancer's Almanac: Managing life and work in the Performing Arts, edited by David R. White, Life Friedman, and Tia Tibbitts Levinson
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Acting, Theater & Spoken Word
- Drama by Raina Telgemeier
- Love on Cue by Catherine Hapka
- Dramarama, by E. Lockhart
- Klepto. by Jenny Pollack
- Zap, by Paul Fleischman
- Suite Scarlett, by Maureen Johnson
- Talk, by Kathe Koja
- Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, by Janette Rallison
- Surviving the Applewhites, by Stephanie Tolan
- The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generatio, edited by Mark Eleveld - Examples and history of slam poetry, hip hop, performance artists, the Beat poets...with an accompanying CD.
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Singing & Playing Music
- Beige, by Cecil Castellucci
- Pop Princess, by Rachel Cohn
- When the Curtain Rises, by Rachel Dunstan
- Diva, by Alex Flinn
- Fat Kid Rules the World, by K. L. Going
- Lemonade Mouth, by Mark Peter Hughes
- Guitar Girl, by Sarra Manning
- Rock Star, Superstar, by Blake Nelson
- Plastic Angel, by Nerissa Nields
- Born Blue, by Han Nolan
- Sky: a Novel in Three Sets and an Encore, by Roderick Townley
- Backstage Pass, by Gaby Triana
- The Mozart Season, by Virginia Euwer Wolff
- When the Black Girl Sings, by Bil Wright - Lahni struggles with being the only African American in her school - and in her family - but finds a new voice when she starts to sing in a church choir and at a school competition.
- Good Enough, by Paula Yoo
- Trollbridge, a Rock'n'Roll Fairy Tale, by Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Guitar, by Frederick Noad and other resources for learning to play the guitar, or play it better.
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Performing Arts in General
- It Chicks, by Tia Williams
- Overcoming Stage Fright in Everyday Life, by Joyce Ashley
- Speak up! A Guide to Public Speaking, by Patricia Sternberg
- How to be Your Own Booking Agent: a Performing Artist's guide to a Successful Touring Career, by Jeri Goldstein
- Opportunities in Performing Arts Careers, by Bonnie Bjorguine Bekken
