Zibby Payne & the Drama Trauma by Alison Bell
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- Age Range: 9 to 12
- Pub. Date: April 2007
- 96pp
- Sales Rank: 354,320
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2007
- Publisher: Lobster Press
- Format: Paperback, 96pp
- Sales Rank: 354,320
- Age Range: 9 to 12
- Series: Zibby Payne Series
- ISBN-13: 9781897073476
- ISBN: 189707347X
Synopsis
Everyone is excited about the school play -- except for Total Tomboy Zibby, who thinks acting is utterly boring. But when she learns that the main character in the play is a soccer star, just like her, she decides that playing a famous athlete and having tons of adoring fans would be More Than Okay. After she gets the part, she realizes her character has to kiss a boy. Even worse, the boy is her soccer buddy ... and he may actually like her. That way. Zibby will do anything to get out of The Kiss, if it means rewriting the script, wearing plastic lips, or quitting the show! Can she find a way out of smooching on stage without letting down her cast members, or will she wreck the entire sixth grade musical?
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Selected, spring/summer 2007 catalogue: Books for Everybody
CM: Canadian Review of Materials
... a smart, quick-thinking girl ... learns that teamwork and cooperation are just as important on the field as off . . .
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Alison Bell has never kissed a boy on stage and never will. In addition to writing the "Zibby Payne" series, she is also the author of Let's Party! and Fearless Fashion from the "What's Your Style?" series. She lives in South Pasadena, California, with her husband, two sons, and a very spunky daughter.
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Reviewed by Allison Fraclose for TeensReadToo.comby TeensReadToo
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November 19, 2008:
Zibby Payne has decided that "drama is for sissies, not tomboys," so she has absolutely no interest in trying out for the school play, even though everyone else is. But when hotshot Amber comes to her for soccer tips, Zibby can't help but think that she would be a natural for the lead character, who scores the winning soccer goal at the end of the play.
Before she knows what she's getting in to, Zibby lands a part in the play...as "The Prissy Girl!" She even has to sing a solo about the color pink! Amber, of course, gets the main part, while Zibby's soccer buddy, Matthew, lands the role of lead male.
When an accident lands Amber in a cast and Zibby in the main role, Zibby and Matthew are horrified to learn that they must kiss at the play's closing. Mrs. Halpin, the director, will not back down, and Zibby must try everything to get out of this kiss, even if it means quitting the show.
I had a very hard time believing that a teacher would force two obviously uncomfortable students to exchange such an intimate gesture in public. Regardless, Zibby's second adventure left me with a few laughs, and a happy conclusion.
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