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Gary L. Blackwood

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Though he's best known as an author of novels and nonfiction books (The Shakespeare Stealer series, The Year of the Hangman, Second Sight, Bucket's List), Gary L. Blackwood has also penned a dozen stage plays for youth and adults. Dark Horse won the Ferndale (CA) Repertory Theatre's competition; The Count of One was winner of the Festival of Firsts in Carmel, CA; Fateville took top prize at the Dayton FutureFest. His stage adaptation of The Shakespeare Stealer has been produced by most of the top children's theatres in the States.

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THE RED NYLON of the tent was closing in on him, nearly black in the darkness.

— from Wild Timothy, 1987

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Wild Timothy

1987

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Thirteen-year-old Timothy, more interested in reading than in physical activity, reluctantly accompanies his enthusiastic father on a camping trip and, when he accidentally becomes lost in the woods, discovers that he is capable of surviving on his own.

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Shakespeare's spy

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The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.

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Spooky spectres

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Presents true-life accounts of ghosts in such categories as "Short-lived Spectres," "Persistent Phantasms," and "Homemade Spooks."

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