< href="http://turnpaige.com/2008/04/23/listening-for-lions-by-gloria-whelan/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan">Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:56am |
Audience: 10 and up
Rating: B-
Synopsis:
Rachel Sheridan loves her life in Africa where her parents are missionaries and run a hospital and school. But when both of her parents die from influenza, Rachel is taken in by the scheming Pritchards, who involve her in their money-making schemes and send her away to England. [...]
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April 1st, 2008 at 10:57am |
Audience: Young Adult
Rating: A-
Synopsis:
This story goes far beyond the confines of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Lisa Klein’s creative retelling, Ophelia is much more than a discarded pawn in Hamlet’s quest for revenge. Klein’s Ophelia is a wonderfully real heroine, torn between love and fear for what the man she loves has [...]
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March 20th, 2008 at 8:29am |
The Shakespeare Stealer Series: Book 3
Audience: 10 and up
Rating: B
Synopsis:
The final book in the Shakespeare Stealer series doesn’t disappoint. Like the first two books, it’s a good blend of history and imagination. In Shakespeare’s Spy, times are intense at the Globe Theater; the queen is ill and rumored to be dying, out [...]
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