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The Shakespeare Stealer
By Blackwood, Gary L.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-52545-863-0
- Publisher
- New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1998.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1998
Gr 4-7 Young Widge is an Elizabethan Oliver Twist with a talent for shorthand. Raised in an orphanage, he is apprenticed to an unprincipled clergyman who trains Widge to use a cryptic writing system that he's invented to pirate sermons from other rectors. Hired by a mysterious traveler, the boy is hauled off to London to attend performances of Hamlet in order to transcribe the script for another theater company. Naturally, all does not go smoothly, and in the course of trying to recover his stolen notebook, Widge...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
