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Heroes
The author provides 12 biographies of important men throughout the world and throughout history that she illustrates in the art style of the time and place. An introduction, maps, and a list of further reading make this a useful book in the classroom.
| Author: Hazell, Rebecca |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
Organized chronologically, the book offers short biographies of famous writers with intriguing anecdotes to encourage readers to seek the literary works. The book includes a useful index, a glossary of literary terms and a short bibliography. Each biblio
| Author: Krull, Kathleen |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Othello, A Novel
The author retells Shakespeare's play Othello as a novel, relocating the setting to late 15th century England and changing the racial identities of Iago and Emilia to African. Boldface type calls attention to passages from Shakespeare. Iago manipulates
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Shakespeare, His World and His Work
This book explores the world of William Shakespeare through beautiful illustrations and diagrams, quotations from plays, a detailed timeline, a bibliography, and a closer look at five plays--A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King L
| Author: Rosen, Michael |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Tempest, The
This is a prose retelling of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, a story of an exiled Duke and his daughter during their stay on an enchanted island. The book ends with an author's note.
| Author: Shakespeare, William (retold by Coville, Brice) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Twelfth Night
This is a narrative retelling of Shakespeare's play. Many of the famous lines are embedded in the narrative.
| Author: Shakespeare, William (retold B. Coville) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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William Shakespeare and the Globe
This is the story of William Shakespeare and the rebuilding of The Globe Theatre. This is a good reference book.
| Author: Aliki |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | language arts - writing
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Winter Poems
This collection features 25 poems about different aspects of winter. Several very well known poets are included: Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Frost, Dickinson, Sandburg.
| Author: Rogasky, Barbara (compiler) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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