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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A.R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read...
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Designed to make Shakespeare's great plays available to all readers. Provides: accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. The play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 3
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AD 600L
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English
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Mischief is in the air when the King and Queen of the Fairies quarrel and Puck is left in charge of the love potion. Four young people are lost in the woods on midsummer's night. Will they find each other and true love, or will Puck's meddling leave them broken-hearted and alone? A band of players prepares to entertain the Duke of Athens. But now that the fairies have made a donkey out of their leading man, will Quince and the others ever get to play...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing page notes - including short definitions of words, key textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 6
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GN 470L
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English
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Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays puts readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. Each freshly edited text is based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play.
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Includes: freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play; full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play; scene-by-scene plot summaries; a key to famous lines and phrases; an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language; an essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play; and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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GN 450L
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English
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Completely red-edited,the New Folger Library edition of Shakespear's plays puts readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. Each freshly edited text is based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play. Each volume contains full explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as a helpful introduction to Shakespeare's language.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 4
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NC 1120L
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English
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"Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to...
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Discover why playing is school readiness with this updated guide. Timely research and new stories highlight how play is vital to the social, physical, cognitive, and spiritual development of children. Learn the seven meaningful experiences we should provide children with every day and why they are so important.
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Gavin Bolton's “Contextual Drama” is the result of more than two decades of study of Bolton's theory and practice. For teachers and those in the caring professions, it will clarify the power of contextual drama as a beneficial learning medium for children and adults, both within and beyond the classroom. The core of the book is a detailed analysis of nine examples of the contextual drama mode; the first five demonstrate and analyse Bolton's practice...
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“A Journey of Art and Conflict” is a deeply personal exploration of David Oddie's attempts to uncover the potential of the arts as a resource for reconciliation in the wake of conflict and for the creative transformation of conflict itself. It began when Oddie, seeing the fractured world around him, asked himself what he could do to help; that question set him off on travels around the world, including to Palestine, Kosovo, South Africa, India,...
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Part Memoir / Part Self Help.
In a church-boy meets Hollywood reveal, charismatic performer, curator, and influencer coach DeP engages you in lessons that will guide you on a self work journey while inviting you to liberate and ultimately step up to your next level.
14) A Wrong turn
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A wrong turn
A wrong turn at a fork in the road unwittingly, leads two friends into an encounter with a charming yet mysterious stranger...but they soon discover that beneath his kindly mask lurks a sinister alter ego capable of pure evil...
Lured by his charm they enter into a nightmarish sequence of events...a deadly date with the devil.
No Vacancies
A killer on the run from the Police finds himself being, hunted by a ghost from his past......
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Part history, part fiction, part satire, in the comic tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Gore Vidal, and Joseph Heller, The Carson House and the Old Fort Mountain Railroad is two works connected by two generations of characters that turns history on its ear.. Both stories are fictional accounts of two major events in McDowell County in Western North Carolina where the author resides. The Carson House stage play depicts the years 1798 to 1820, while the story...
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There are many different paths in life that we can choose to follow. There are also circumstances where life imposes the only choice of acceptance. Rubies in the Rubble is the story of one woman's courage and commitment to accept her lot in life and bloom where she was planted.
For most of her existence, Jill Speering led a life of reacting to the trauma of abuse, shame, helplessness, and betrayal. As a small child, she and her family endured mental...
17) A Reflective Practitioner's Guide to (Mis)Adventures in Drama Education - or - What Was I Thinking?
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This collection of essays from many of the world's preeminent drama education practitioners captures the challenges and struggles of teaching with honesty, humour, openness and integrity. Collectively the authors possess some two hundred years of shared experience in the field, and each essay investigates the mistakes of best-intentions, the lack of awareness, and the omissions that pock all of our careers. The authors ask, and answer quite honestly,...
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Much of the work in the field of African studies still relies on rigid distinctions of 'tradition' and 'modernity', 'collaboration' and 'resistance', 'indigenous' and 'foreign'. This book moves well beyond these frameworks to probe the complex entanglements of different intellectual traditions in the South African context, by examining two case studies. The case studies constitute the core around which is woven this intriguing story of the development...
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Six Days to Zeus: The Asset, America yawned while Allah wept, is the story of Chief Warrant Officer Hill, a covert operations intelligence officer and the 10 year war in Bosnia that led directly to the bombing of the World Trade Center on 9/11.
"Just because you can't spell it, nor pronounce it, doesn't mean you won't end up there on a mission!"
Most Americans can speak to a sexual event in the White House from 1995 to 1997 that led to a...
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The journey begins with a somber graveside service as, the skies above New Orleans burst forth with a hard rain, punctuated by the mystery of an incomplete manuscript delivered to a grieving son by an unexpected guest. From that starting point, author Joel Momberg takes readers on an unforgettable and engaging ride in his third novel, For Those Who Can, following the path through the mid-1970s, of a young college prep teacher, Alan Handler, in an...
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