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…this one made me nearly dance in my living room with the thrill of discovery

Brush Up Your Shakespeare Month Contest with  

I never would’ve figured out on my own that this particular dialogue from Romeo and Juliet was in fact a Shakespearean sonnet. I’ll let Kelly explain the pattern’s unique features here. Read the sonnet, then check out Zeffirelli’s interpretation here, then swing back to Kelly’s blog here so you can enter the contest too!

Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Juliet
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.

Romeo
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

Juliet
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Romeo
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Juliet
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.

Romeo
Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.

Juliet
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

Romeo
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.

Juliet
                You kiss by the book.

April Henry is celebrating the release of her newest book TORCHED with a giveaway!

Torched releases tomorrow!
When Ellie’s parents are busted for growing pot, the FBI thinks they’ve finally found a way inside Mother Earth Defenders, a radical environmental group. They give her a choice: infiltrate MED or her parents will go to jail. At first Ellie is more than willing to entrap the MEDics, but the more time she spends undercover—particularly with Coyote, the green-eyed MEDic that she can’t stop thinking about—the more she starts to believe in their cause. When talk turns to murder, Coyote backs out, but Ellie is willing to risk everything to save her family—even if it means losing Coyote and putting her own life on the line.

Kirkus says "the thrills and action will keep readers interested." Booklist says, "The contemporary mix of politics and thrilling action will grab teens, not just environmentalists."

I say: it’s time for a giveway!I’d love to give a couple of signed copies away!

It’s so simple!
1. Go to aprilhenry and omment on her post and let her know you’re in.
2. To get your name in twice, paste the link to April’s livejournal, or copy this post into your blog.
3. Wait until March 15, when Teen Henry will draw the winners.

Thanks for playing along!

Yay! I love contests Congratulations April!!!!!!

Congratulations to Kerry Madden 
(mountainmist), 
whose third Weems Family/Maggie’s Holler book, Jessie’s Mountain, is out today!
 
And enter her “School Photo” contest to win a copy of Jessie’s Mountain. You have until February 18th to enter your old school photo, which Kerry will post to her blog. The three top winners will each receive an autographed copy of Jessie’s Mountain.

DIRECTIONS:
Write your name, age, school, and town. You don’t have to put the year if you don’t want to. Email it to contactkerry at kerrymadden dot com.
Kerry’s daughters, Lucy and Norah, will be the judges of the funniest old school pictures contest/book-give-away. 

If you don’t have a scanner, just dig out an old photo, take a picture of it with your new techno-savvy digital camera and email that file