Shakespeare’s Secretby Elise Broach
Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated (2005)
Interest Level: Ages 12 and up
Category: Realistic Fiction
Type: Novel
Summary: When Hero Netherfield's family moves to a new town, she dreads her adjustment into her sixth grade class. Just as she fears, her first day of school starts terribly and gets worse from there. The only thing that saves her is the mystery presented by her elderly next-door neighbor. Could there be a treasure hidden in her house? If it's there, how will they find it? As Hero and her neighbor try to solve the mystery, a neighborhood boy befriends Hero and tries to help.
Online Connections:
1. Author website: http://www.elisebroach.com/index.htm
2. NPR: Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92142217
Book Connections:
1. Masterpiece by Elise Broach
2. Desert Crossing by Elise Broach
Keywords: mystery, middle school, shakespeare
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