Thirty-three original, adapted or newly written pieces to help students prepare and perform at festivals and auditions. This volume includes extracts by Louisa M. Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Sid Barrett, L. Frank Baum, Rudolf Besier, Charlotte Bront?, Lewis Carroll, Susan Coolidge, Kate Douglas Wiggin, George Eliot, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Victor Hugo, Priscilla Morris, E. Nesbit, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Makepeace Thackeray, H. G. Wells and Oscar Wilde.