THE TOTAL TRAGEDY OF A GIRL NAMED HAMLET
by Erin Dionne
Puffin Books/Penguin Young Readers Group
Hardcover: 9780803732988
Paperback: 9780142417485
Ages 8-12
304 pages
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia and generally go about in public as if it were the 16th century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius seven-year-old sister will attend middle school with her --- and even worse when the Shakespeare project is announced and her sister is named the new math tutor. By the time an in-class recitation reveals that our heroine is an extraordinary Shakespearean actress, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she --- like her family --- is anything but average.
In a novel every bit as funny as her debut, Erin Dionne has created another eighth grader whose situation is utterly unique --- but whose foibles and farces will resound with every girl currently suffering through middle school.
THE TOTAL TRAGEDY OF A GIRL NAMED HAMLET © Copyright 2012 by Erin Dionne. Reprinted with permission by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group. All rights reserved.
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