A small house on an isolated country road, which is shared by Jessie and her mother. Jessie's father is dead; her loveless marriage ended in divorce; her absent son is a petty thief and ne'er-do-well; her last job didn't work out and, in general, her life is stale and unprofitable. As the play begins Jessie asks for her father's service revolver and calmly announces that she intends to kill herself.

A collection of twenty-three one-act plays about inventors, scientists, statesmen, humanitarians, and explorers, including Marie Curie, Mark Twain, and Clara Barton.

Twenty-five one-act dramatizations of stories from folklore. Includes "Rapunzel, " "Aladdin, " "King Midas, " "Stone Soup, " and "Finn McCool."

Six original one-act plays for middle graders written by six Newbery winning authors.