A lighthearted story, "Penguin Days" follows Lauren, who is on the autism spectrum. She sometimes misreads social cues, like not understanding why others laugh; she is not always included in groups. Still, Lauren is a rambunctious... Read More

In Andrea Pyros’s engaging "Pink Hair and Other Terrible Ideas", a young girl dealing with the difficulties of junior high also contends with her mother’s breast cancer diagnosis. Josephine is a normal but shy twelve-year-old girl... Read More

Learn about kindness, sharing, listening, and how to be “buff” from the animals, both large and small, of the East African savanna. Songs, chants, rhymes, dance, and lots of dung beetle jokes will have hands clapping, feet tapping,... Read More

An honest and easy-to-implement plan is paired with humor and empathy in Conor Richardson’s Millennial Money Makeover. Conor Richardson knows that millennials think differently about money. After personally going into debt after... Read More

Mary Todd Lincoln never enjoyed much public favor. Some believed her to be a secret segregationist; others condemned her as a spendthrift during a time of war. Leanne Howe’s play "Savage Conversations" radically ups the ante in... Read More

In Thomas D. Peacock’s "Beginnings", Donovan “Little Wolf” Manypenny is an Ojibwe descendant who was raised by a white family in Boston. When his grown daughter digs into his family’s past, it sets him on a geographical and... Read More

Patterned after the music of Schubert and described as a winterreise (German for “winter journey”), Sarah Léon’s "Wanderer" is a story all about unspoken feelings. Constructed around the relationship between two characters, the... Read More

Daniel Browne’s "In the Weeds" is set in Brooklyn, New York’s famously diverse borough of neighborhoods. In recent decades, Brooklyn’s status has changed; it is no longer shadowed by mighty Manhattan. Brooklyn is a destination of... Read More