King of Shadows/Fantasy Author:Susan Cooper Read by Jim Dale — 4 hours 49 minutes, 3 cassettes — An ABA Pick of the Lists — A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999 — Nat Field has been picked by a dazzling international director to perform at Shakespeare's Globe, London's amazing new copy of the theater for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays four hundred years ago. As the ... more »boys begin to rehearse strange, eerie echoes of the past begin creeping in. Nat goes to bed mysteriously sick and wakes up healthy. —But he's no longer in the present, he's in 1599, acting at the original Globe. And his costar is Shakespeare himself; no longer a vague historical figure, but a quirky, warm-hearted writeractor whose friendship changes Nat forever.« less