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Macbeth

a retelling
2004
Presents a young reader's version of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" about a Scottish nobleman and his wife who resort to murder and treachery in their pursuit for power and then are haunted by the corpses of their victims.

William Shakespeare's Macbeth

the graphic novel
2005
A science-fiction graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of brutal ambition, in which Macbeth, a dragon-riding nobleman in a future world, kills his king with the help of his power-hungry wife and finds himself battling rivals and vengeance seekers for his life and the throne.

Kidnapped

1981
A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

A place called freedom

1996
Twenty-one-year old coal miner Mack McAsh leaves his indentured servitude in Scotland on a slave ship bound for a Virginia plantation in 1766, with his only friend, beautiful, high-born Lizzie Hallim.

Running on the cracks

2009
After her parents are killed in an accident, English teenager Leonora Watts-Chan runs away to Glasgow, Scotland, to find her Chinese grandparents.

Shivers and shakes

2009
Salt and Pepper share a terrifying adventure while on a school trip to Scotland where the pair are solicited by ghosts to help someone called Stephen Beecombe, survive a tunnel of werewolves, and face a dangerous man with wooden teeth.

Kidnapped

2009
An illustrated adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel in which a sixteen-year-old orphan, having been kidnapped by his uncle, escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

Eye of the needle

2005
As D-Day approaches, Faber, an aristocratic German spy known as "The Needle, " is aware of the the Allies' top-secret intended place of attack, but is distracted by the affections of Lucy Rose, a lonely, strong-willed Englishwoman.

Queen of Scots

the true life of Mary Stuart
2004
A biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, that draws from her letters, those of English spies, and other documents to argue that her reputation as an ineffective leader ruled by her passions is unfounded and that, rather, she was a skilled politician and diplomat and was framed for the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley.

Rob Roy

1995
Francis Osbaldistone is banished to Scotland, where he meets Robert Roy MacGregor, and when he joins Rob Roy in his attempt to overthrow the English, he learns how to fight for what he believes in.

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