Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan
📗📘📙📕 Have you ever "looked up" without being on the internet or at a role model? Julia Marks literally has and it hasn't always made her happy. For example her friends never choose her to be on their team for team sports, and her parents whisper about her and say that they're lucky that she isn't a boy -- just because of her height. Julia's mom makes her audition for the local Wizard of Oz play because a famous broadway director is directing it (Shawn Barr). Julia is a little quiet and closed in the beginning but pops open like a walnut when she makes the part as the munchkin and finds that her director is really supportive and cheery. And she just had call out, "We were inspired, and we could watch a little more Wizard of Oz if that would help." ...