New covers! It definitely looks like they're trying to go more YA than middle grade with this packaging. I don't know---they're cool, but very "gritty tv" looking. A little generic, and not the most representative of the tone or content of the books.

We all need a day off in an oak tree now and then.

"Listen. Once a little girl was playing hide-and-seek, and although she was supposed to be hiding, she found something instead."

Does this make you want to take this book on a blind date?

Dramatic illustration from the Folio edition of Jane Eyre

Eighty pages in and engrossed.

Atwood's contribution to the Hogarth Shakespeare series is a playful, poignant riff on The Tempest. As a novel, it's engaging, fun, and it doesn't require an intimate familiarity with the play. As a remix, it rises above simple modernization by constantly questioning which characters are really enacting which parts, who is the hero or monster or fool. The descriptions of actors and inmates interacting with Shakespeare are especially great.