Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781534462908)

"Will make a theater lover of any young reader." --Booklist​​

Perfect for fans of The Wednesday Wars, this raucous and delightful middle grade mystery from Edgar Award-nominated author Martha Freeman is filled with backstage fun, relatable family drama, and maybe even a ghost.

Break a leg That's what you say to actors when what you mean is Have a good show . Anything else is bad luck. When Miss Magnus literally breaks her leg, eleven-year-old Noah McNichol and the rest of the Plattsfield Winklebottom Memorial Sixth-Grade Players are left without a director for their production of Hamlet. Coach Fig comes to the rescue--sort of. He'll direct, even though he is clearly more interested in whatever is happening on his phone than in directing. He doesn't even know upstage from downstage But then something weird happens: out of nowhere appears a strangely dressed old guy named Mike. He tells Noah he has theater experience, before disappearing--poof.

Noah has some investigating to do and some decisions to make. Like, does he care more that their new director might be a ghost or about getting to make his stage debut? And who is Mike and why has he decided to help? As things get weirder and weirder, one thing becomes clear: The show must go on, and Noah will do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.

Author: Martha Freeman
ISBN-10: 1534462902
ISBN-13: 9781534462908
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2020
School Library Journal 01/08/2021 pg. 1
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 75