The book that I read this week was actually recommended to me by one of you! I love books that take history that is familiar, and change it, so you are sure what is true and what is fiction (Dan Brown is a master of this). "Shakespeare's Secret" is a great mystery book that has two middle school students hunting for a hidden diamond, and questioning who might have been the real writer of Shakespeare's works (did you know that were a few questions surrounding this?) The character of Hero is well written, as she struggles to fit in at her new school, you really can relate to her challenges. See the summary of the plot below, and come check it out!
From School Library Journal:
Hero has always hated her Shakespearean-based name, for, as her new sixth-grade classmates are quick to tell her, it's better suited to a dog than to a girl. Resigned to their constant teasing, she concentrates instead on her new found friendship with her kindly, if somewhat eccentric, elderly next-door neighbor. Mrs. Roth tells Hero about the missing "Murphy Diamond," a precious jewel that supposedly disappeared from the house where Hero now lives. Mrs. Roth has the necklace that once held the diamond, an heirloom that possibly once belonged to Anne Boleyn, and she is convinced that it is still hidden in the vicinity. She and Hero set out to find what the police could not, and, with help from Danny, a popular yet self-assured eighth grader who befriends them both, they succeed. Only then do the real connections among the three of them come to the surface and change their lives forever.
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