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This image has been sourced from online.See full AustLit entry'"The course of true love never did run smoothly."
'If people have been stuffing up love since Shakespeare's time, what hope does Seph–or sefi_15 when she's online–have with Tom? Look at her parents: they barely speak to each other since Nick moved out, and could her mum really have a 'thing' for their balding (not to mention married) neighbour? Even Seph's best friend Pia–boy magnet–is having problems. The forces of love, like the unbearably hot summer, seem to be beyond anyone's control.
(...more)Cupid Painted Blind is set in a school, where the main character Persephone performs in a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
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Cover image courtesy of publisher.See full AustLit entry'Holly's new at St Clementine's Girls High School. She already knows who to watch out for, though. Jess Flynn, the most popular girl in year nine. She's beautiful and friendly, she's the leader of the 'it' group, and she's even being nice to Holly. But Jess has a secret and Holly knows it. Holly's best friend back in Melbourne, Calypso, told Holly the truth. Jess is a liar, a shoplifter and a boyfriend-stealer. Calypso wants revenge for her ex-friend's betrayal, and Holly's only too happy to oblige.
(...more)The play 'Much Ado about Nothing' is studied in a secondary English classroom.
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Image courtesy of publisher's websiteSee full AustLit entry'Sweet sixteen and never been kissed - and that′s the way Aurora Skye wants it to be. She′s too busy finding Potential Princes ™ for her two best friends, counselling her sensitive New Age dad and dealing with the unexpected return of her long-absent mum. But always in the background there′s Hayden Paris, the boy next door, the bane of Aurora′s life. Smart, funny, and always around to see her at her worst, he ′gets′ her like no-one else ... and that′s what makes him so infuriating.
'When Aurora and Hayden are coerced into the lead roles in the school production of Much Ado About Nothing, things can only get worse.
(...more)A romantic novel wherein the protagonist is cast in her high school production of 'Much Ado about Nothing'.
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Image courtesy of Walker BooksSee full AustLit entry'Year Eight student Ella Jamison desperately wants to be in the middle school play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. But her stage fright means she's stuck helping back stage. And it doesn't help that her eccentric grandfather lives everyday like he's acting on stage. Will she ever be able to tread the boards like she desires?' (Publisher's blurb)
(...more)This novel includes a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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This image has been sourced from online.'Ishmael has made it to the Senior School and things are really looking up. His nemesis and chief tormentor Barry Bagsley has finally decided to leave him alone, while his dream girl and chief goddess Kelly Faulkner has finally decided not to. Has he broken free of Ishmael Leseur's Syndrome at last? Could his remaining two years at St Daniel's College actually be described as 'normal'?See full AustLit entry
'Absolutely not.' (From the publisher's website.) (...more)Students are unhappy studying Hamlet.
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Cover image courtesy of publisher.'Gemma Stone is convinced that it's always unseemly to chuck a Birkett and that it's actually insane to chuck one in front of a complete stranger. But that was before she fell in love with a boy who barely knows she exists, before she auditioned for the school play, before she met the family of freaks her sister Debbie is marrying into, before the unpredictable Raven De Head took an interest in her, and before she realised that at the right time and for the right reason, a Birkett could be a beautiful thing. (...more)See full AustLit entry'The Tempest' is performed in a high school where the main character of the novel is cast in the play.
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This image has been sourced from online.Velvet S. Pye is about to begin a really bad day, a miserable year. Things get even worse when she meets the students in her Cultural Studies class. A musical version of a Shakespearian tragedy? They must be kidding. (publisher's blurb) (...more)See full AustLit entryProtagonist Velvet is required to adapt Richard III into a musical for school theatre.
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A teenage girl becomes involved with a boy with a troubled past and his obsession drives him to dangerous actions. (Libraries Australia) (...more)See full AustLit entry
Tessa is being stalked by a boy who enjoys her performances in high school productions of Shakespeare's plays.
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From the moment Miss Payne ("The Hound of the Baskervilles, the English teacher from Hell. The Pitbull!") walks into their classroom, Calma and Kiffo know she will have to go. After doing a bit of, well, teacher stalking, they are amazed to discover her having late-night rendezvous with suspicious associates. Could she be involved in the mob? The drug trade? How fabulous! But the more they work to prove Miss Payne is crooked, the more evidence they find of her innocence. Creeping hell! A teacher this heinous has got to be guilty of something - right? (Publisher blurb, American ed. (...more)See full AustLit entryThis YA novel features a student assignment where the protagonist Calma is required to imagine herself as Lady Macbeth and write a diary entry from her point of view.
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