5 best-selling school books like Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee

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Cambodian Rock Band

By: Lauren Yee

4.29

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

In 1978, Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years lat…

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Cover of Sweat by Lynn Nottage

1. Sweat

By: Lynn Nottage

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
  • school
  • read for school
Cover of Yankee Dawg You Die by Philip Kan Gotanda

2. Yankee Dawg You Die

By: Philip Kan Gotanda

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Yankee Dawg You Die. read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Mountaintop by Michael Eric Dyson, Katori Hall, None

3. The Mountaintop

By: Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set a… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

4. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
  • school
  • read for school
Cover of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

5. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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6. A Mercy

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages,

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more

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  • historical

7. Yellow Face

By: Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic f… read more

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  • plays
  • school
  • drama

8. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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9. M. Butterfly

By: David Henry Hwang

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterflyopens in the cramped prison cell where di… read more

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10. Vietgone

By: Qui Nguyen

3.26

Format: None pages,

A love story between two Vietnam War refugees who meet in an Arkansas relocation camp, the show fea… read more

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Cover of The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin

11. The Pachinko Parlour

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.61

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more

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"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour

"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour

Cover of Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury

12. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
  • school
  • read for school
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

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13. The Thanksgiving Play

By: Larissa FastHorse

3.87

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A mismatched but well-meaning foursome sets out to devise a politically correct school play that ca… read more

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  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope

14. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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Cover of Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) by Clare Barron

15. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Clare Barron

4.22

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more

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  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes

16. My Broken Language

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age aga… read more

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"God is the opiate of the masses."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"She was made of exclamation points."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"Maybe midnight was the hour of answers."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"Writing's a muscle... it gets stronger."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

Cover of Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee

17. Cambodian Rock Band

By: Lauren Yee

4.29

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

In 1978, Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years lat… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Yee's Cambodian Rock Band book and Lauren Yee's Cambodian Rock Band

  • school
  • historical
  • read for school
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Wolf Play by Hansol Jung

18. Wolf Play

By: Hansol Jung

4.26

Format: None pages, None

A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"But wolves hate Katie. Katies hate Wolf. But Katies live with Peters. So even though Peters are very often allies, Peters are not a hundred percent for the wolf."

-Hansol Jung, Wolf Play

Cover of POTUS by Selina Fillinger

19. POTUS

By: Selina Fillinger

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spin… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh

20. School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play

By: Jocelyn Bioh

3.92

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on th… read more

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  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung

21. Wild Goose Dreams

By: Hansol Jung

4.21

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Nanhee is a North Korean defector whose family was left behind in North Korea. Minsung is a South K… read more

Similar categories in Hansol Jung's Wild Goose Dreams book and Lauren Yee's Cambodian Rock Band

  • plays

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