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Appignanesi, Richard
Manga Shakespeare: As You Like It
In graphic novel format, presents an adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tale about how Rosalind, banished to the Forest of Arden and disguised as a boy, reunites with her true love, Orlando.
(unpaged) 2009
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Barrett, Julia
Presumption
This witty sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" follows the fate of Georgiana Darcy, Mr. Darcy's younger sister, who must choose between two suitors, a well-placed navy captain and a brash young architect.
238 p. 1993
Appears on the following book lists:
 If You Liked...Jane Austen's novels
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Bayard, Louis
Mr. Timothy : a Novel
Mr. Timothy Cratchit has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent Uncle Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm. Timothy soon finds that he's on the trail of something far worse -- and far more dangerous -- than an ordinary killer.
384 p. 2003
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Beddor, Frank
The Looking Glass Wars
When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
358 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Graphic Novels: Literature
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Bennett, Veronica
Angelmonster
Fictionalized story of Mary Godwin, author of the horror classic Frankenstein, and her relationship with poet and freethinker Percy Shelley, who ran away to Europe to escape gossip and social ostracism in London, and who endured tragedy and terrible losses repeatedly in her life. As tragedy strikes, not once but time and again, Mary begins to realize that her dreams have become nightmares, and her angel . . . a monster. Now the time has finally come for the young woman who would become Mary Shelley to set her monster free.
234 p. 2006
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Bennett, Veronica
Cassandra's Sister
A fictionalized biography of Jane Austen focusing on her early life growing up with her sister Cassandra in a large country parsonage family in southern England, and the experiences and people which may have inspired the plots and characters of her famous novels.
227 p. 2007
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Buzbee, Lewis
Steinbeck's Ghost
Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.
343 p. 2008
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Cooney, Caroline B.
Enter Three Witches : a Story of Macbeth
When her father betrays the Scottish king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary's future is bleak after she loses her only true protector and ends up locked away in the tower by the powerful and deadly Lord and Lady Macbeth.
281 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Book Trailers Spring 2008
Mysteries for Teens
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Cooper, Susan
King of Shadows
While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.
186 p. 1999
Appears on the following book lists:
Historical Fiction from Around the World
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Draper, Sharon M.
Romiette and Julio
An Afro-American girl and a Latino boy fall in love after meeting on the Internet, but they are harrassed by a gang who objects to their interracial dating.
236 p. 1999
Appears on the following book lists:
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Enger, L. L.
Undiscovered Country
While hunting in the cold Minnesota woods, 17-year-old Jesse Matson's life is forever changed when he discovers his father, dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why? And just where was Jesse's uncle Clay--always jealous of Harold, and a bit too friendly with Jesse's mother--that cold afternoon?
308 p. 2008
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Fforde, Jasper
The Big Over Easy : a Nursery Crime
Detective Jack Spratt, recently unable to convict three wily pigs in he murder of a certain wolf, meets the challenge of a new case when Humpty Dumpty is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shady part of town.
383 p. 2005
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Fforde, Jasper
The Eyre Affair : a Novel
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality, and literature is taken very, very seriously. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.
374 p. 2002
Appears on the following book lists:
If you liked . . . The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Alternate History
Alex Award - Fiction
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Fiedler, Lisa
Romeo's Ex : Rosaline's Story
In a story based on the Shakespeare play, sixteen-year-old Roseline, who is studying to be a healer, becomes romantically entangled with the Montague family even as her beloved young cousin, Juliet Capulet, defies the family feud to secretly marry Romeo.
246 p. 2006
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Fisher, Catherine
Corbenic
In this modern day version of Perceval and the Holy Grail, a guilt-ridden British teenager leaves his mentally ill mother to live with his wealthy uncle and begins a journey of self-knowledge and redemption after being briefly transported to the Waste Land of Arthurian times.
281 p. 2005
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Franklin, Emily
At Face Value
In this modern twist on the Cyrano de Bergerac story, talented and witty Cyrie Bergerac, a high school senior cursed with an enormous nose, has a secret crush on her popular friend Eddie Roxanninoff.
257 p. 2008
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Golden, Christopher
Enemies
In the famed village of Sleepy Hollow, siblings Aimee and Shane witness the war between the Headless Horseman and an army of monsters, including a merciless one-eyed giant.
199 p. 2006
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Gratz, Alan
Something Rotten : a Horatio Wilkes Mystery
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.
207 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Amazing Adventures
Mysteries for Teens
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Hambly, Barbara
Renfield : Slave of Dracula
This imaginative novel puts a fresh and frightening new spin on Bram Stoker's"Dracula" as it focuses on his mad servant, Renfield.
306 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Vampires
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Kephart, Beth
Undercover
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, much like Cyrano de Bergerac, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a client's desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself.
278 p. 2007
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