A Thousand Acres is not a YA novel, but if you have to read Hamlet or King Lear in high school (and I did), then you know that even if your own life is safe and pleasant, ...

"A Thousand Acres" also features two female leads — Ginny, played by Quagliata, and the middle Cook sister, Rose, played by Sara Gartland.

A THOUSAND ACRES is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's KING LEAR, told from the perspective of one of his daughters, Ginny. From the beginning, with no lush overture, you can see this isn't ...