Romeo and Juliet needs no introduction. Younger readders with be suitably introduced to one the greatest love stories ever to be written. Romeo and Juliet is the tragic love story of the "star-crossed lovers," Romeo and Juliet. Set in the city of Verona, Italy, the play revolves around the feud between two affluent families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Despite the enmity, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall passionately in love and wed in secret....

"Romeo and Juliet share a romance not meant for this mortal coil. Their love has the power to alter the course of time and change the world they must if there is to be any hope for a future. Together they will discover the brutal truths of both past and future while maintaining their devotion to a love once found only in fairy tales. All the while, villainous Duke Montague opposes their union and crushes Neo Verona with a boot to its throat. As their...

Become swept up in a tale of love, feuds and tragedy. Before and after reading questions and activities are designed to help guide student comprehension as they read the novel. Identify the central problem of this play. Defend or refute statements about the play by using evidence from the text. Find an example of hyperbole in Romeo's soliloquy. Get a handle on the difficult vocabulary by finding their synonyms based on their context. Identify the...

Two are star-crossed-but three are unscripted in Larry Schwarz and Iva-Marie Palmer's Romeo, Juliet & Jim, of this YA trilogy. Romeo and Juliet seem to have it all. They are heirs to the two greatest and oldest fashion houses Paris has ever seen, the rival houses of Montague and Capulet. They live in stunning mansions, attend glamorous parties, count celebrities and supermodels among their closest friends. Yet the one thing they want most they can't...

An illuminating look into the English politics, players, and events which correlate dramatically with one the Bard's most read works.

"You are deluded, Romeo. Vampires do not have the capability to love. They are heartless." The Capulets and the Montagues have some deep and essential differences. Blood differences. Of course, the Capulets can escape their vampire fate, and the Montagues can try not to kill their undead enemies. But at the end of the day, their blood feud is unstoppable. So it's really quite a problem when Juliet, a vampire-to-be, and Romeo, the human who should...

In this compelling memoir Lori Abbott chronicles her dangerous relationship with her ex-fiancé who was a meth and heroin addict. In addition to the overwhelming aspects of loving a drug addict, there was domestic abuse, including a series of traumatic events during the relationship that escalated to an attempt being taken on her life 2015. Lori Abbott is an attorney who spent fifteen years of her career representing victims of domestic abuse who...