Stage Fright

By Ann M. Martin

Book Overview

Shy Sara panics when her fourth-grade teacher announces that her class is to perform a play before the entire school, but eventually learns that stage fright can sometimes be healthy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590337580
• ISBN13: 9780590337588
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

cool!

sara is scared. she has a big part in the school play... but she's shy.

Don't be afraid of this one! ~ from a teacher

I found a gem in this little book that has sadly been taken out of print. Sara is a shy little girl who really has just two friends (one of them is her cousin). Her mother is constantly pushing her to be more social and not spend so much time in her room, but Sara doesn't like people looking at her much less speaking in front of them. This is why Sara is understandably upset about the upcoming play that she must be in.On top of Sara's problems with public performance, she is having to cope with her best, and only real, friend moving away during the summer, and trying to get an epic poem the three girls have written included in the Guinness Book of World Records. Unfortunately, they sent the only copy of their poem to a rather famous actor in England, instead of to the publishers.This book does a wonderful job of showing how a young girl was able to overcome her shy behavior to get through a public performance without going overboard. I don't want to spoil the ending, but I will tell you that it does not end with Sara getting bitten by the "showbiz bug". This story is very real and I wish I had discovered as a shy young kid.Why 5 stars?:I expected this book to be a comedic look at something embarrassing happening on stage. Instead, it was about some children going through some very difficult times. Students, teachers and parents are portrayed in a real manner too, not necessarily the models of good behavior we want to see, but how a person would really respond. I highly recommend this book become a part of your classroom library. I intend to use it with every shy kid in my class and wish I had discovered it earlier in my life.