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"The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature." William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based his early romantic tragedy on Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. Shakespeare's resulting masterpiece, in turn, has inspired countless retellings...
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family"--
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...
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In 1597, Shakespeare debuted his newest play, a tragedy about a young Italian couple whose families were sworn enemies. Romeo and Juliet quickly became one of the most famous couples in literary history, and this play became one of Shakespeare's most performed shows. But did you know that much of Romeo and Juliet's story was adapted from tales by other writers? Learn all about how William Shakespeare's dynamic and romantic teenage duo sprouted from...
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Mommy-track mysteries volume 4
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Romeo loves Juliet. Or Rosaline. And Juliet loves Romeo. Or Viola. Or Orlando. It's Shakespeare as you've never played him before. Packed with exciting choices, fun puzzles, secret surprises, terrible puns, and more than a billion possible storylines, this book offers a new experience every time you read it. You can choose to play as Romeo or Juliet, but you can also play as both of them, or as Juliet's nurse, or, if you're good, you can even unlock...
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Thea Stilton. Mouseford Academy volume 1
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Mouseford Academy is celebrating their 600th anniversary and the headmaster and teachers decide to put on a play of the famous Mouseo and Juliet. The Thea Sisters want the role of Juliet but so does their rival, Ruby Flashyfur.
10) Romeo + Juliet
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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A modern retelling of the classic Shakespeare play, with the two families now being rival gangs.
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Fakespeare volume 2
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Imprint, a part of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Three kids get lost inside Shakespeare's book and must help Romeo and Juliet finish their story in order to return home"--
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Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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In Verona, Italy, the beautiful city where Romeo first met Juliet, there is a place where the heartbroken leave notes asking Juliet for her help. It's there that aspiring writer Sophie finds a 50-year-old letter that will change her life forever. As she sets off on a romantic journey of the heart with the letter's author, Claire, now a grandmother, and her handsome grandson, all three will discover that sometimes the greatest love story ever told...
13) Enter the body
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Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In the room beneath a theater stage, the ghosts of Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and other teenage girls who died tragically in Shakespeare's plays, share their experiences and trauma and get the chance to retell the stories of their lives in their own terms.
15) Whatshisface
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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.
16) Fair Rosaline
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English
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"The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different life. Soon though, Rosaline begins to doubt all that Romeo has told her. She breaks off the match, only for Romeo's gaze to turn towards her cousin, thirteen-year-old...
17) Romeo and Juliet
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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It's William Shakespeare's epic and searing tale of love. An ageless story from the world's most renowned author is reimagined for the 21st Century. This adaptation is told in the lush traditional setting it was written, but gives a new generation the chance to fall in love with the enduring legend.
18) Romeo and Juliet
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Manga Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A classic Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two star-crossed young lovers who dare to defy their feuding families, put aside all obstacles, and find happiness together but at a tremendous cost. This grimly beautiful tale, set in Renaissance Italy, follow Romeo and Juliet from their fateful first meeting to their last.
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