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214 pp.
| Morrow |
October, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-688-15394-1$$15.00
(3)
4-6
Fifteen-year-old Jared moves in with the actor father he's never met and gets a part as one of the doomed princes in his father's production of Shakespeare's Richard III. A malevolent theater ghost stokes the hostile rivalry between Jared and his spoiled half-brother, leading to a narrowly missed tragedy mirroring the bard's play. Drama buffs will especially enjoy this well-paced ghost story despite its two-dimensional characters.