The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet - Hardcover

Dionne, Erin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803732988 ISBN 13: 9780803732988

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2010

Synopsis

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 sixteenth 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.

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About this title

Review:

"An excellent choice for middle school readers." -School Library Journal

About the Author:

Erin Dionne is an assistant professor of liberal arts at a small college north of Boston, where she teaches freshman comp, lit classes, and some creative writing electives. When not actively promoting her writing with great humor and enthusiastic understanding of the magic and miseries of middle school, Erin reminisces about her days in high school and college marching band. She lives with her husband and daughter in Framingham, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0803732988
• ISBN 13: 9780803732988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290