5 best-selling plays books like Shakespeare Stories (Top Ten) by Terry Deary

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Shakespeare Stories (Top Ten)

By: Terry Deary

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Explores the Bard's ten best-known plays in language kids can understand, and includes a biography …

If you liked the plays plot in Shakespeare Stories (Top Ten) by Terry Deary , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Cynthia Marshall

1. Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
"Melt Egypt into Nile!"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"...make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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2. The Happy Prince

By: Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • short stories
"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Bring me the two most precious things in the city,"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose,…"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

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3. How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)

By: Cressida Cowell

4.59

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Middle Grade Book 12 is the epic finale to the New York Times be… read more

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  • humor
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t the end."

-Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)

"Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way"

-Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)

"Once, when I was a child, I dreamed that Grimbeard the Ghastly, on the deck of his ship The Endless Journey , threw the sword Endeavor up into the air. Up and up it spun, through the inky blackness, …"

-Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12)

Cover of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library

4. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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5. Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

By: A.A. Milne , Mark Burgess , David Benedictus

3.69

Format: None pages,

It was eighty years ago, on the publication of The House at Pooh Corner, when Christopher Robin sai… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
Cover of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, #1) by Ian Fleming, Brian Selznick

6. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, #1)

By: Ian Fleming , Brian Selznick

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children's book--and it is a clas… read more

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  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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7. Crashing Computers

By: Michael Coleman

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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8. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

Cover of How to Steal a Dragon's Sword (How to Train Your Dragon, #9) by Cressida Cowell

9. How to Steal a Dragon's Sword (How to Train Your Dragon, #9)

By: Cressida Cowell

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Viking Berk heir Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his dragon, Toothless are target of dragon rebel… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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10. Isaac Newton and His Apple

By: Kjartan Poskitt

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

You've probably heard of Isaac Newton. He is dead famous for: discovering gravity, being a right cl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • history
  • childrens
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11. An Inspector Calls

By: None

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
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12. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

13. High Fidelity

By: Nick Hornby

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more

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14. How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel (How to Train Your Dragon, #10)

By: Cressida Cowell

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Dragon Rebellion has begun, bringing the Vikings' darkest hour upon them. Hiccup has become an … read more

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15. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • classics
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

16. The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

3.78

Format: 438 pages,

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more

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17. Black Beauty

By: Gail Carson Levine , Anna Sewell

3.99

Format: 245 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, h… read more

Similar categories in Gail Carson Levine's Black Beauty book and Terry Deary's Shakespeare Stories (Top Ten)

  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"It is good people who make good places."

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios."

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"I have heard men say that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing;"

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do"

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

18. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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19. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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20. How to Break a Dragon's Heart (How to Train Your Dragon, #8)

By: Cressida Cowell

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE STORY CONTINUES in the eighth volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs...Hiccup Horr… read more

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21. How to Betray a Dragon's Hero (How to Train Your Dragon, #11)

By: Cressida Cowell

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

High up in the Treacherous mists of the Murderous Mountains, Hiccup and the Company of the Dragonma… read more

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22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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  • classics
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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23. Inward

By: Yung Pueblo

4.22

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to un… read more

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  • nonfiction
"i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

"to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without di…"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

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24. Murder on the Christmas Express

By: Alexandra Benedict

3.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Eighteen passengers. Seven stops. One killer.In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train… read more

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25. Medusa

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Min… read more

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  • graphic novels
"I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I'm a half-finished map and I'm always trying to plot my points, and I won't have anyone do it for me."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"Sometimes, not even folding yourself into the smallest, littlest shape is enough. So you might as well stay the size you're supposed to be"

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

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26. Dear Evan Hansen

By: Val Emmich

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the Broadway smash hit Dear Eva… read more

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"The me I am is not the me I was."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"It reminds me of that saying: “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"There is nothing unrealistic about the love that one man feels for another"

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

"Meh is basically a shoulder shrug, and that pretty much sums up the reaction I get from society at large."

-Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

Cover of Golden Boys (Golden Boys, #1) by Phil Stamper

27. Golden Boys (Golden Boys, #1)

By: Phil Stamper

3.76

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

National bestselling author Phil Stamper crafts the perfect summer friendship story, starring four … read more

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28. Le Daily Star (Lucky Luke #53)

By: Morris

3.97

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

Lucky Luke fait la rencontre d’Horace Greely, un jeune journaliste. Si on peut dire que Lucky Luke … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
Cover of Miles Morales: Shock Waves by Justin A. Reynolds

29. Miles Morales: Shock Waves

By: Justin A. Reynolds

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn's Spider-Man, Miles Morales, … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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30. Groovy Movies

By: Martin Oliver

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Go behind the scenes with this star-studded guide to the movie industry, meet anxious actors and da… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
Cover of Shakespeare Stories (Top Ten) by Terry Deary

31. Shakespeare Stories (Top Ten)

By: Terry Deary

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Explores the Bard's ten best-known plays in language kids can understand, and includes a biography … read more

Similar categories in Terry Deary's Shakespeare Stories (Top Ten) book and Terry Deary's Shakespeare Stories (Top Ten)

  • classics
  • history
  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • comics
  • plays

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3.71

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4.20

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William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

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3.69

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Brian Michael Bendis , David Marquez , Sara Pichelli , Chris Samnee

3.79

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Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

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Christina Diaz Gonzalez

4.16

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4.20

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