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Meg (Margaret) Terry is 15, almost 16 years old. Her natural talent for acting is extraordinary, a fact acknowledged by expert professionals. One of these, Gino Lucci, is director of a summer camp for talented young actors and actresses. During a talent hunt, he sees Meg in a school production. Impressed, he offers her a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, one of ten scholarships to the costly summer camp. But there's a serious catch. Scholarship winners must pay a room and board fee of $2000.

Meg's mother is a single mom who is self-employed as a seamstress with a limited clientele and...

In Show and Tell, Glenna Sloan speaks to both lay readers and educational professionals in a series of stories that cover all aspects of education: something of its history and the philosophy that should inform its practice and much on its practice, both exemplary and deplorable, with examples from elementary school to college. Whether they read the crisp, delicious vignettes in bits and snatches or devour them all at once, all readers are sure to either nod or shake their heads as they recall their own learning experiences. As the author writes in the Introduction, "By examining what is good...