Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev: ALA Book Talk

Watch this video to hear librarian Linda Ward-Callighan recommend the young adult novel Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev. This YA fantasy novel is the first in Mantchev's Theatre Illuminata fantasy series.

All her world's a stage. Bertie Shakespeare Smith is not an actress, yet she lives in a theater. She's not an orphan, but she has no parents. She knows every part, but she has no lines of her own. That is, until now. Welcome to the Théâtre Illuminata, where the characters of every play ever written can be found behind the curtain. The actors are bound to the Théâtre by The Book, an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of the actors, but they are her family. And she is about to lose them all because The Book has been threatened, and along with it the Théâtre. It's the only home Bertie has ever known, and she has to find a way to save it. But first, there's the small problem of two handsome men, both vying for her attention. The course of true love never did run smooth. . . .

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Read more about the YA book Eyes Like Stars at http://us.macmillan.com/eyeslikestars

Learn more about author Lisa Mantchev at http://us.macmillan.com/author/lisamantchev

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