The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Erin Dionne. Dial, $16.99 (290pp) ISBN 978-0-8037-3298-8
Hamlet, named for her Shakespeare-obsessed parents’ favorite play, is starting the school year with the goal of fitting in. Not so easy when her parents walk around in Elizabethan garb and her seven-year-old genius sister, Desdemona, will be beginning eighth grade alongside her. Hamlet’s two nemeses immediately befriend her sister and her crush doesn’t notice her (though her male best friend is supposedly crushing on her). The final straw is the Shakespeare festival at school. When selected in class to read from
Reviewed on: 01/25/2010
Genre: Children's
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