The annual talent show at Shirley S. Sugarman Elementary School is in just a few weeks, and George Brown signs up to be a stagehand. He is determined to do a good job because the new, improved George is responsible and helpful and glad to pitch in. So is comic mayhem coming? Oh yeah, absolutely! But leave it to Nancy Krulik to devise an unexpected way for disaster to strike and bring down the curtain.

Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

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