Enter the Body
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · January 23, 2024
“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines.
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- Who it’s for
- A verse novel lets Shakespeare’s tragic heroines reclaim their stories together.
- Genres
- Novels in Verse for Teens, YA Poetry, Theater & Musicals for Teens
- Published
- Penguin Young Readers Group, January 23, 2024
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“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love.
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Simply spectacular.”—Michael L. Printz Award winner Laura Ruby, author of Bone Gap In the room beneath a stage's trapdoor, Shakespeare’s dead teenage girls compare their experiences and retell the stories of their lives, their loves, and their fates in their own words. Bestselling author Joy McCullough offers a brilliant testament to how young women can support each other and reclaim their stories in the aftermath of trauma.
Heroines Reclaiming Voice
A verse novel lets Shakespeare’s tragic heroines reclaim their stories together.
Come here for
- Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia speaking for themselves
- Sisterhood, justice, and love in the aftermath of trauma
Expect
- A novel-in-verse with interwoven retellings
- The girls comparing experiences and telling their stories in their own words
Where it sits
| Novels in Verse for Teens | 91% |
|---|---|
| YA Poetry | 31% |
| Theater & Musicals for Teens | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Stories About Girls & Women
- Novels in Verse for Teens
- Theater & Musicals for Teens
- Authors
- Joy McCullough
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- January 23, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Stories About Girls & Women