Eyes Like Stars : Theatre Illuminata, Act I by Lisa Mantchev
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends Date : July 2009 Page Count : 352 Reading Level : Ages 12-UP BOOK DESCRIPTION: Welcome to the Theatre Illuminata, where the actors of every play ever written can be found behind the curtain. They were born to play their parts, and are bound to the Theatre by The Book--an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of them, but they are her family--and she is about to lose them all and the only home she has ever known. MY REVIEW: It took a couple of chapters for me to fully get into this book, but once I did I thought it was wonderful. Bertie is our main character and the heroine, a child of the theatre where she was left behind as a child. When the story opens Bertie has caused some trouble and some of the adult directors want her to leave. Out of a cast of hundreds it appears Bertie is the only one who can leave this magical theatre. The only problem is she doesn't want to. The stage is quite literally her home--her bedroom is o