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Ariel
By Tiffany, Grace & Shakespeare, William
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06075-327-6
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins, 2005.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2005
Gr 6-10 The first thing you should know about Ariel is that she's a liar. - With this grabber, Tiffany takes the characters from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and provides background as to how they get to the point where readers find them in the play. The story spans centuries, beginning with Ariel's birth -from the head of a luckless sailor, who was blown across the Atlantic in the fifty-eighth Year of Our Lord - and ending with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. In between, readers meet Caliban, Prospero, Miranda, Antonio, Alonso, Gonzalo, and Ferdinand. While the general story line remains the same...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
