Any suggestions on where to get good monologue material for pre-teen (11 year old girl)?

We wrote a couple of good monologues for my 12-year-old daughter off of High School Musical 2. I'm sure you could get some off of the first High School Musical movie, also. Other good movies for that age are Princess Diaries, Ella Enchanted, Juno, A Cinderella Story, Nancy Drew. You can also use t.v. shows to create monologues. Disney Channel works great for this age. Just put the closed captioning on and write down some scenes. Then revise it to be a monologue. You can actually take a scene with 2+ people talking and turn it into a single-person speaking and use it as a monologue. And, of course, it doesn't have to be exactly what's on the show. You can add and subrtact to make it work.

Leah

First off, I dont recommend anyone use a monologue from a movie. The tendency for an actor (especially young ones) is to imitate the other actor that already played the part. CD's and agents don't want to see someone mimic someone else. I also don't recommend you write your own because a monologue to use for auditioning is something that should have certain qualities about it that a playwrite or story writer has. Im not saying if you write your own its going to be horrible. Its just that, if you're not a professional writer, its not a good idea. A monologue should have direction, a solid beginning, middle, and end, and it should be in the now, not in the past, etc. There are plenty of monologue books out there. Barnes and Noble, Borders, and amazon.com have plenty of books for you to pick monologues from. BUT, even with THAT idea, you also have to realize that anyone and their 2nd cousin could purchase the same books, so you may show up at an audition with the same material that someone else has. So, what to do? I think monologue books are a good start, but then you should start using plays, and piece together dialogue from a play and mold it into a solid monologue. But, in doing that, you have to be good at reworking the script so it reads with consistency for the character. Well, thanks for reading the rant.