![]() ![]() ![]() The local fall election is coming up and the campaigning is unusually fierce, since Deputy Orville Braun is running against been-in-office-forever Chief Meade. As she follows the clues, she must step carefully, because the election for police chief means everyone has an opinion about the crime rates in this town, and the law might prefer to sweep some messy matters under the rug. Shady Hollow is a cozy small town filled with woodland creatures who live and work together. In a quiet neighborhood along the shore of Mirror Lake, Vera discovers a few things that don't fit, starting with a misplaced lamp and an unknown face in an old photograph. But foxy reporter Vera Vixen has some questions. They think Dotty just started to believe her own nonsense. What can it mean? Edward has no answers, and most of the neighbors would rather ignore the awkward situation. The accuser, Dorothy Springfield, is an admittedly eccentric resident who claims her loving husband Edward is dead.even though he's standing right next to her when she says it. ![]() In the midst of this unexpected tension, a murder is announced, but there's a twist: the victim is still alive! Shady Hollow is a cozy small town filled with woodland creatures who live and work together. ![]()
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Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL HonFBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The production wasĭirected by Seattle Children's Theatre's artistic director, Premiere stage adaptation (running April-June). See a performance of Seattle Children's Theatre's world Schools, the region-wide program encouraged young members of theĬommunity, beginning February 1, 2002, to read and discuss Holes, and to Public Library, the King County Library System and Seattle Public Same Book?" Sponsored by Seattle Children's Theatre, Seattle ![]() University of California's Hastings College of the Law.ĪBOUT THE PLAY Holes was the first book chosen for the SeattleĪrea's literacy initiative program: "What if All Kids Read the His education from the University of California at Berkeley and Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year, an ALA Bestīook for Young Adults, a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the YearĪnd a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. ![]() ![]() Including the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award and the Pacific His novel, Holes, has won numerous awards, Retrieved from (Playscript).-a084651335ĪBOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Louis Sachar is the author of more than twentyīooks for children, including There's a Boy in the Girls'īathroom, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, the Wayside School series and the (Playscript)." Retrieved from (Playscript).-a084651335 2002 Theatre Communications Group 05 May. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Ashley and Logan team up to figure out who-or what-is haunting Snakebite, their investigation reveals truths about the town, their families, and themselves that neither of them are ready for. Although everyone shuns the Ortiz-Woodleys, the mysterious Logan may be the only person who can help Ashley get some answers. ![]() Ashley Barton’s boyfriend was the first teen to go missing, and she’s felt his ghost following her ever since. But the moment she and her dads arrive, she starts to get the feeling that there's more than ghosts plaguing this small town. Logan Ortiz-Woodley, daughter of TV's ParaSpectors, has never been to Snakebite before. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead, the weather isn’t normal, and all fingers point to TV’s most popular ghost hunters who have just come to town. The Dark has been waiting-and it won't stay hidden any longer. A debut YA supernatural thriller about two girls who fall in love when they team up to stop an evil presence terrorizing their small town. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While combing through her mother’s notes, Thea learns that there’s a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries to make it to lose their sanity. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher’s Stone-whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold-but just when the promise of the Stone’s riches is in their grasp, Thea’s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness. Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. In her debut novel A Golden Fury, Samantha Cohoe weaves a story of magic and danger, where the curse of the Philosopher’s Stone will haunt you long after the final page. ![]() ![]() One, I hate parties… two, there are three other women present, and they are all pregnant. For instance: “I look around the party and realize two things. But in the finely detailed play-by-play - the getting dressed, the getting in the car, the getting lost on the way - Malone captures the perfect and crucial details, the details that give us the world. Judge Lauren Grodstein had this to say about Margaret's work: "In “People Like You,” Margaret Malone’s devastatingly sad and funny short story, Cheryl and Bert decide to go to a party, and then they decide to leave. Feel free to contact her through her website. She’s at work on a collection of stories and a memoir co-written with her husband. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Swink, The Wordstock Ten Anthology, and elsewhere. ![]() Margaret Malone is a 2009 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient in fiction. ![]() |