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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jack and Annie learn the show must go on when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to Elizabethen England. There they meet William Shakespeare himself - one of the greatest writers of all time! But Mr. Shakespeare's having a hard time with some of the actors in his latest show. Are Jack and Annie ready to make a big entrance? Or will it be curtains for Shakespeare?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
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English
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Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the guest of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
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English
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Gregory answers the question about an unsolved crime that has fascinated detectives and historians for centuries. Useing documents and evidence from the Tudor era and, with almost magical insight into the desires of Robert Dudley and his lovers, she paints a picture of a country on the brink of greatness, a young woman grasping at her power, a young man whose ambition is greater than his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them.
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English history novels volume 2
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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A novel on Queen Elizabeth I's son, the product of a love affair. After she gives birth she is told the baby died, when in fact it was switched with a stillborn. The boy becomes a soldier and adventurer, then one day the man who took him confesses, and son and mother are reunited
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Shakespeare stealer volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
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Shakespeare stealer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
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Shakespeare stealer volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
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Publisher
Published by Arrow Books in association with Hammer
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
GOOD FRIDAY, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell. Is this a witches' Sabbat? Two notorious Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting trial. Why is the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter defending them? And why is she among the group of thirteen on Pendle Hill? Elsewhere, a starved, abused child lurks. And a Jesuit priest and former Gunpowder plotter,...
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Queens of England volume 2
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Language
English
Description
Novel is told in the first person by Queen Elizabeth I whose unique personality changed the course of history.
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Deirdre Kirkwood, the bastard child of Griffin, a Catholic priest, and demon-infested Roanna Douglas, has been raised with her cousins Betsy and Hal, the children of Griffin's twin, Donovan. Each of them has inherited a powerful magical talent and a wolfhound familiar. Any of them could become the next Merlin of Britain.
Deirdre's quest to know something, anything, about her father leads to a confrontation with El Lobison the Master of all Werewolves....
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1583, young Christopher Marlowe--student, brawler, rakehell, and would-be playwright--has had a dreadful evening. The first performance of his play in the corner of a very disreputable Cambridge bar is a humiliating flop, and then he's attacked on the streets while in the company of Thomas Kyd. So when Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster, sends for him, Marlowe is only too happy to go. The assignment is go to Holland, where England's...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Two star-crossed assassins in Elizabethan England must go undercover as actors in one of William Shakespeare's plays in a plot to kill the queen"--
In the early sixteen-hundreds, two star-crossed assassins, nineteen-year-old Toby and seventeen-year-old Kit, go undercover as actors in a Shakespeare play in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth.
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Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While helping to clean up their local community theater, twelve-year-old Mason and his friend Aubrey suddenly find themselves in 1598 London where a discouraged William Shakespeare has just lost his lease on the Globe and is thinking about quitting writing--and it is up to the children to come up with a plan to recover the theater and convince Shakespeare that the best is yet to come.