Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost

"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 Awardnominated 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. But when Miss Magnus literally breaks her leg, eleven-year-old Noah McNichol and the rest of the Plattsfield Winklebottom Memorial Sixth-Grade Players are out of luck, left without a director for their production of Hamlet. Coach Fig comes to the rescuesort 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....