The Shakespeare Stealer

The Shakespeare Stealer

Infobox Book |
name = The Shakespeare Stealer
title_orig =
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image_caption = The cover of a 2000 paperback edition of "The Shakespeare Stealer"
author = Gary Blackwood
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country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Young adult novel
publisher = Puffin Books
release_date = May 1, 1998
media_type = Hardcover and Paperback
Audio CD and casette
pages = 208 pp (hardcover)
224 pp (paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0141305950
preceded_by =
followed_by = Shakespeare's Scribe

"The Shakespeare Stealer" is a 1998 young adult novel, written by Gary Blackwood. The novel is a historical fiction novel, and takes place in Elizabethan England. It was an ALA Notable Children's Book in 1999cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ALSCTemplate.cfm?Section=pastchildrens&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=156151|title=1999 Notable Children's Books|accessdate=2008-01-16|publisher=American Library Association] .

Plot summary

A fourteen-year-old boy, known as Widge, has nothing. He's an orphan, he doesn't even know his real name. His only talent in a shorthand language that is valuable to his master, a clergyman, who uses Widge to steal other preachers' sermons. Widge is then sold to a new master who has heard of his shorthand skills and wants William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", which hasn't been reprinted yet, for himself.

Widge is given the assignment to write the play out in shorthand, and sets off to London, with a companion named Falconer. Falconer is a ruthless man, who is given the job of making sure that the deed is accomplished, no matter what. But during the play performance, Widge is so caught up in the play that before long, all he wants is to know what happens in the play. When he returns for a second try, his notebook is stolen.

i the hbic in this mfp shut the fuck up bitch u dnt run shit u dumb fuck go suck sum dick hoe haha!!!!!! role of Ophelia. He befriends them and they make him feel like a part of a family. He begins to deliberate various moral issues he never would have thought of before, including where his loyalties should lie.

equels

The novel's popularity has spawned two sequels:

* "Shakespeare's Scribe" (2000)
* "Shakespeare's Spy" (2003)

The three novels were published together as a single, 784 page volume in 2004cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/books/review/0919bookshelf.html?scp=5&sq=The+Shakespeare+Stealer|title=Bookshelf: Children's Books in Brief
publisher=New York Times] .

Awards and nominations

* 1999 ALA Notable Children's Bookcite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ALSCTemplate.cfm?Section=pastchildrens&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=156151|title=1999 Notable Children's Books|accessdate=2008-01-16|publisher=American Library Association]
* 1999 ALA Best Book for Young Adultscite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/1999bestbooks.cfm|title=1999 ALA Best Books for Young Adults|accessdate=2008-01-16|publisher=American Library Association]
* An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studiescite web|url=http://downloads.ncss.org/notable/notable1999.pdf|title=1999 NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Books|accessdate=2008-01-16|publisher=Smithsonain Magazine]
* 1998 Smithsonian Magazine Notable Bookcite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues98/nov98/bookreview_nov98.html|title=1998 Smithsonian Magazine Notable Books|accessdate=2008-01-16|publisher=Smithsonain Magazine]
* 1998 School Library Journal Best Book of the Yearcite web|url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA153006.html?q=The+Shakespeare+Stealer|title=SLJ's Best Books 1998|accessdate=2008-01-16|publisher=School Library Journal]
* 1999 Child Study Children's Book Committee Best Children's Book of the Yearcite web|url=http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/BookDetails.asp?BookID=53054|title=The Shakespeare Stealer at Mobipocket.com|accessdate=2008-01-16|publisher=Mobipocket.com]
* 1998 Junior Library Guild selectioncite web|url=http://www.writers.ns.ca/Writers/gblackwood.html|title=Gary Blacwood at WFNS.com|accessdate=2008-01-16|publisher=WFNS.com]

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525458638 "The Shakespeare Stealer" at Amazon.com]


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