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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet is the classic tragedy of western literature. Created by William Shakespeare, it is tale of two very young lovers from Verona, Italy who defy the wishes of their feuding families, get married then, and tragically, end their own lives in the name of love. It is their deaths that ultimately help the rival families of the Capulet's and Montague's find reconciliation. Manga Classics brings an incredible new reading experience with this...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
2009. Patterson earned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family, and over the months that followed she kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold? Sifting through the few belongings her father left behind, looking to signs and symbols for meaning, Patterson also gathered evidence of the final days of...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A former editor-in-chief of Paris "Vogue" presents an account of her four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, a vocation that enabled her to learn key differences about illusion versus substance and the qualities of genuine happiness.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A distinguished historian and the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West--a well-known novelist, poet, and journalist who had an affair with Virginia Woolf--delves into the lives of seven generations of women in her family, separating fact from fiction and tracing her roots.
5) Whatshisface
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Simon & Schuster paperback edition, Updated edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
lxii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains the dramatic text of William Shakespeare's tragic play about the forbidden love between two young people from feuding Veronese houses, and includes commentary, notes, and details about the life of the author.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but also about star-crossed lovers--and herself.
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, map ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the logs and adventures of Juliet Fish Nichols, a female lightkeeper who kept the light shining through the fog following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake,
9) Whatshisface
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
Author
Publisher
Graphic Planet, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet, each from an Italian family that despises the other, desperately try to be together in their rash and youthful love, with tragic results. Includes discussion prompts, fun facts, a short biography of Shakespeare, and famous phrases from the play. A glossary is also included.