Author : Lisa Fiedler
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2006-09-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805075003
In a story based on the Shakespeare play, sixteen-year-old Roseline, who is studying to be a healer, becomes romantically entangled with the Montague family even as her beloved young cousin, Juliet Capulet, defies the family feud to secretly marry Romeo.
Author : M.Paul Rivers
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1663216509
YOUNG ROMEO DEQUAN JONES, A RECENT HIGH SCHOOL GRAD, HAD HIS ENTIRE LIFE AHEAD OF HIM. TRAGICALLY, HIS ENTREPRENEUR GRANDFATHER DIES IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT LEAVING ROMEO OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS, A MINT CONDITIONED STINGRAY CORVETTE, STOCKS AND BONDS, AND IF HE CHOOSES, AN INTEREST AND PERMANENT POSITION IN HIS PROSPERING FOOD BUSINESS. ROMEO THINKS HE'S MET THE LADY OF HIS DREAMS. THEN HIS LIFE GETS COMPLICATED AND TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. SEDUCTIVE WOMEN USE THEIR WILES TO SEDUCE HIM. HIS EX-NEIGHBOR, A SEXY VOLUMPTUOUS TEMPTRESS, WHOM ROMEO'S ALWAYS SECRETLY DESIRED, SETS ROMEO UP AND AN UNDERAGED YOUNG GIRL WON'T LEAVE HIM ALONE. ONCE HE DISCOVERS AND REALIZES WHAT HAS HAPPENED; IT IS TOO LATE. HIS FATE IS NO LONGER IN HIS HANDS AND HIS LIFE BEGINS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL MUCH FASTER THAN HE CAN HANDLE. BECAUSE OF THE NEIGHBOR HE ONCE CARED ABOUT, HIS DOOM MAY HAVE BEEN SEALED..........
Author : Hortensia Pârlog
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1443879444
As reflected in its title, the central question that drives this book is “what’s in a balcony scene?”, particularly that which appears in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Exploring its representation in a number of adaptations of Shakespeare’s play, this volume shows that there are a number of fresh angles from which to look at this topic, which, in turn, provide unique insights into the balcony scene, As such, the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in Shakespeare, from researchers and students to the general reader.
Author : Shani Petroff
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250111137
In this fast-paced romance that combines flirty fun and situational comedy, a spunky heroine must navigate secret crushes, high school hijinks, and of course, Shakespeare. Understudies never get to perform...which is why being Juliet's understudy in the school's yearly Shakespeare production is the perfect role for Emily. She can earn some much-needed extra credit while pursuing her main goal of spending time with Wes, aka Romeo, aka the hottest, nicest guy in school (in her completely unbiased opinion). And she meant to learn her lines, really, it's just: a) Shakespeare is HARD, b) Amanda (the "real" Juliet) makes her run errands instead of lines, and c) there's no point, since Amanda would never miss her chance to be the star of the show. Then Amanda ends up in the hospital and Emily, as the (completely unprepared!) understudy, has to star in the most famous scene from Romeo and Juliet opposite the guy of her dreams. Oops? Shani Petroff’s Romeo and What’s Her Name is a laugh-out-loud funny novel chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads. Praise for Romeo and What's Her Name: "This has all the hallmarks of a high-school romance: a swoon-worthy male lead, a requisite mean girl, and plenty of backstage dallying and wacky miscommunication. Flirty and fun." —Booklist "Petroff’s latest offering, published by Macmillan’s crowdsourced imprint, will delight romance lovers with its fast pace and humorous tone." —School Library Journal "[Emily is] the American Bridget Jones...this book is simply amazing!" —Jenn, reader on SwoonReads.com
Author : Lisa Fiedler
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805070540
In a story based on the Shakespeare play, Ophelia describes her relationship with Hamlet, learns the truth about her own father, and recounts the complicated events following the murder of Hamlet's father.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Sarah Rees Brennan
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375870415
Loving a boy she has never met but with whom she has communicated telepathically all of her life, Kami Glass investigates screams heard in the nearby woods and sees lights in a long-empty manor house only to discover that her hometown has been hiding a murderer.
Author : Dana E. Lawrence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501361783
Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change? The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity.
Author : Silhouettes
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1599831899
Jamal "Prince" Perkins is on a mission to let the world see into his unstable, single-parent home and walk you down the life-threatening neighborhood streets he wants to control.
Author : Joan L. Knickerbocker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351813021
Young adults are actively looking for anything that connects them with the changes happening in their lives, and the books discussed throughout Literature for Young Adults have the potential to make that connection and motivate them to read. It explores a great variety of works, genres, and formats, but it places special emphasis on contemporary works whose nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions make them well suited to young adult readers. It also looks at the ways in which contemporary readers access and share the works they're reading, and it shows teachers ways to incorporate nontraditional ways of accessing and sharing books throughout their literature programs. In addition to traditional genre chapters, Literature for Young Adults includes chapters on literary nonfiction; poetry, short stories, and drama; cover art, picture books, illustrated literature, and graphic novels; and film. It recognizes that, while films can be used to complement print literature, they are also a literacy format in their own right-and one that young adults are particularly familiar and comfortable with. The book's discussion of literary language--including traditional elements as well as metafictive terms--enables readers to share in a literary conversation with their students (and others) when communicating about books. It will help readers teach young adults the language they need to articulate their responses to the books they are reading.
