Reader's theater is an activity in which students, while reading directly from scripts, are able to tell a story in its most entertaining form. Typically, teachers create or purchase premade scripts of stories, and students focus on reading those scripts in a fluent and expressive manner. However, in the lesson presented here, students turn the book, "Search for the Golden Bear Moon: Science and Adventure in the Asian Tropics" by Sy Montgomery into a reader's theater script themselves. This article describes how students act out this genetics-based story to strengthen their language skills and reinforce science concepts in the process. (Contains 3 figures and lists 4 resources.)