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The Playmaker

By J.B. Cheaney

By J.B. Cheaney

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Part of Richard Malory

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Jan 16, 2009 | ISBN 9780307559111 | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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About The Playmaker

The year is 1597. Elizabeth is queen. Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men are packing London’s Globe Theatre. And the severed heads of Catholic insurgents are impaled on the Tower’s gates. One 14-year-old boy should arouse no one’s interest.

But within a week of his arrival, Richard Malory is robbed, beaten, and threatened at knifepoint. Someone wants him to leave London, and Richard is determined to find out why. There’s only one place he’ll be safe: as an actor on the stage. As he begins to unravel the traitorous plot that has ensnared him, Richard must make a difficult decision. Will he play the part set out for him—or can he become the playmaker of his own life?

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About J.B. Cheaney

J. B. Cheaney’s The Playmaker was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Teens. She and her husband live in the Ozarks of Missouri.

Product Details

Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Children’s Middle Grade Mystery & Detective Books

Ebook | $5.99
Published by Yearling
Jan 16, 2009 | 320 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780307559111
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"This splendid story, told in language both vivid and seductive, is about all the big things in life: life and death, loyalty and treachery, truth and lies, substance and shadow. J.B. Cheaney has given us a marvelous adventure about a boy who must survive by himself in a dangerous wourld in order to find out who and what he truly is." — Newbery Medalist Karen Cushman

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