The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet Author:Erin Dionne Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But given her family -- a seven-year-old sister who is attending middle school with her, and shakespearean scholar parents who show up like a walking, talking Renaissance Faire -- that's basically impossible. — School gets worse when her sister is named th... more »e new pre-algebra tutor, and even worse whe the class project is announced: It's on Shakespeare. Add it all up, and Hamlet's life (like her name) seems like a total tragedy.
The tale of a girl whose eighth grade drama is at times tragic, at times ridiculously comic and, in the end, totally, wonderfully unexpected. « less