Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

"A behind-the-scenes view of one of Minnesota's most popular storytellers. This volume contains the full text of three of Kevin Kling's stage pieces--21A, The Ice Fishing Play, and Scarecrow on Fire--as well as excerpts from Of Mirth and Mischief, Back Home, and Gulliver Unravels. Previously unpublished poems, short pieces, and a conversation between the Fitzgerald Theater's Tony Bol and the writer provide a window into Kling's creative and collaborative...

Mark does not want to play the turkey in the second grade Thanksgiving play, but then he ends up saving the day.

Annie's friends Henry and Mudge, and especially her rabbit Snowball, help her get over feeling nervous about being in a school play.

Katie can't think of what to do for her Memorial Day project until she decides to help out her neighbor, Mrs. Cortex.

Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship.

When Ella Mentry School is threatened with closure due to budget cuts, A.J.'s new speech teacher, Miss Laney, comes up with a brilliant, if weird, plan to save the day.