Pub Date: July 1, 2000
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 97042987
Lexile Code: 0840
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.70" H x 7.60" L x 5.00" W ( 0.35 lbs) 224 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Action and Adventure | Historical | Renaissance | Performing Arts | Theater and Musicals
Series: Shakespeare Stealer
Description: A young orphan named Widge is sent to the Globe Theater to steal the script of "Hamlet" from Shakespeare's own company of players. When he becomes friends with the actors, he must decide whether to disobey his sinister master or betray his new friends. An ALA Notable Book.
Review Quotes: "Excels in the lively depictions of Elizabethan stagecraft and street life,"--Publisher's Weekly
"A fast-moving historical novel that introduces an important era with casual familiarity." --School Library Journal, starred review "Readers will find much to like in Widge, and plenty to enjoy in this gleeful romp through olde England"--Kirkus Reviews