Shakespeare's Secret is by Elise Broach. Hero hates her Shakespearean-based name. She moves to a new town and starts sixth-grade. Resigned to constant teasing, she concentrates on a new found friendship with her 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. She and Hero set out to find the diamond, with help from Danny, an eighth grader who befriends them both. The mystery itself is fun, but Broach adds a little Elizabethan history and theories about Shakespeare's writings.
Ratings: 4th grade - 10 out of 10.
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