Gilbert and Sullivan Set Me Free Gilbert & Sullivan

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Disney-Hyperion, Sep 1, 2004 - Juvenile Fiction - 240 pages
Although conditions in Sherborn Women's Prison are miserable, the inmates' spirits soar when the new chaplain decides to stage a musical: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. The show transforms the women, and no one is changed more than sixteen-year-old Libby Dodge, who discovers she's a natural performer. But Libby is still bound by her prison sentence and shadowed by her murky past. Gilbert and Sullivan may make prison life more bearable, but can musical theater set her free?

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Section 3
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Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on April 21, 1946. She received a bachelor's degree from Catholic University in 1968 and a master's degree in English literature from Providence College. In 1971, she began working at the American Film Institute in Washington, D.C. She also taught high school and college before taking up writing. She published five works of women's fiction before moving to children's fiction. Her children's novels included It Ain't Always Easy and The Great Turkey Walk. She received the Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction in 2000 for The Boxer and the Agatha Award for best Children's/YA Mystery of the Year in 2003 for The Seventh Knot. She died on December 6, 2017 at the age of 71.

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