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Playing Juliet
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A novel that introduces the Bard to 8-13 year olds
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Candy wrote: "Thanks Jo-ann, sounds good!"And thank you for having a self-promotion discussion topic.
Monica wrote: "will check it out!"Thanks. Hope you like it.
The first paragraph:
"There's a play by William Shakespeare that's so unlucky, no actor ever says the title out loud. They call it the Scottish play if they have to refer to it at all. For the past two weeks, two lines from that play have been running through my head, over and over again. And to make it even worse, they're spoken by a witch:
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes."
Beth Sondquist, 12 1/2, secretly dreams of playing Shakespeare's Juliet. When she learns the children's theatre in her town is threatened with closure, she and her best friend, Zandy Russell, do everything they can to save it. But since Beth keeps breaking one theatre superstition after another in the process, she may never get onstage again. Quotes from Shakespeare bookmark each chapter and foreshadow the next plot twist as a multicultural cast of kids fights to keep their theatre open.
In her blurb, the award-winning author Jane Yolen said “Playing Juliet is cinematic, fast-paced, full of theater magic, misdirection, and Shakespeare. What could be better for any reader who ever wanted to act in a play? I couldn't stop reading. (Oh and there's an extra bonus in the back for teachers introducing the Bard to middle schoolers.)”