Balthasar - Baz - a Montague mob foot soldier and Romeo's right hand man - narrates the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet. The story unfolds on a contemporary Nottingham estate, where trouble is brewing between the Montague Mob and the Capulet Crew. A contemporary retelling of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, but there are still no happy endings...
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Michael Cox is the master of wit and wordplay, and spends a lot of time in schools making children laugh. He has written widely for Scholastic's non-fiction list, including titles for the Dead Famous, Knowledge, Pickle Hill Primary and My Story series and his own Action-Seeker Handbooks. Hodder recently published his Vampire Vigilantes fiction trilogy.
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