Books like The Shakespeare stealer by Gary L. Blackwood

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

Four orphaned girls in Carthya are chosen for a deadly contest to impersonate the king’s lost son, a scheme that could avert civil war.

A dual‑tale graphic and text adventure following Billy Marvel, a shipwrecked boy who builds a renowned London acting dynasty, and Joseph Jervis, a runaway drawn into the family’s haunted house.

An orphan named Widge, trained by his master to steal Shakespeare's plays, must choose between loyalty to his new friends and his sinister mentor.

On her tenth birthday during Passover, Rebecca Rubin discovers the magic of Hollywood when her mother's cousin Max, an actor, brings her to a motion‑picture studio, where she befriends an actress and a set carpenter.

"The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever recovered. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians. He explores the intrigue surrounding the Earl of Pembroke, arguably Shakespeare's boyfriend, to whom the First Folio is dedicated and whose personal copy is still missing. He investigates the uncanny sequence of events in which a wealthy East Coast couple drowned in a boating accident and the next week their First Folio appeared for sale in Kansas. We hear about Folios that were censored, the pages ripped out of them, about a volume that was marked in red paint-or is it blood?-on every page; and of yet another that has a bullet lodged in its pages. Part literary detective story, part Shakespearean lore, The Shakespeare Thefts will charm the Bard's many fans"--

Beatrice Shakespeare Smith, a witty 17‑year‑old orphan, must prove her worth to the Théâtre Illuminata or risk leaving her only home. Facing a magical call board that summons characters from classic plays, she plans a groundbreaking Hamlet‑in‑ancient‑Egypt revival to rescue the theater.

Antonio, a young boy in a giant house with a magician dad and doctor mom, discovers a mysterious neighbor, Theodore Guzman, who opens a world of magical theater and imagination.

A teenage Ryan Waite is hired by a secretive private investigator to pose as a vanished millionaire’s son, but the role’s weight forces him to confront the limits of deception and find a dignified exit when truth surfaces.

A fifteen‑year‑old orphan apprentice actor journeys with Shakespeare’s troupe through plague‑ridden 1602 England, uncovering clues to his parents’ past.

Kaitlin Burke, a teen film star on the cusp of a Broadway breakthrough, uproots her Hollywood life and spends a transformative summer in New York, where fame, first love, and the cutthroat world of theater collide.

After his mother dies, 12‑year‑old David escapes into the stories that once comforted him, only for myth and war to collide in a world where a Crooked Man and a faded king rule over wolves and hidden secrets.

After years of exile, Kestra Dallisor is summoned back to Antora, only to be kidnapped during her return. Now, with a loyal friend beside her, she must outwit enemies who seek the legendary Olden Blade to overthrow a tyrannical ruler.