The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne

Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth-grader. But given her family—a genius seven-year-old sister who is going to attend to middle school with her and Shakespearean scholar parents who show up like a walking, talking Renaissance Fair—that’s not terribly easy.

Life gets worse when her sister is named the new pre-algebra tutor, and even worse when 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.

But, as Shakespeare said, “it is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves” and Hamlet finds that, ultimately, being from a Freak Family can give a girl license to find her own brand of extraordinary. And there’s nothing tragic about that. In fact, the curtain of Hamlet’s eighth grade year might just close to overwhelming applause.

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Our next tour is for The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne. This is a 2010 release.

Here's the tour list for this book. Please let me know if there's any changes I need to make by September 5th.

1. Samantha
2. Lauren
3. Kelsey
4. WillowRaven
5. Lilibeth
6. Allison
7. Pirate Penguin
8. Melanie
9. Kristen
10. Genevieve
11. Carrie
12. Mariah
13. Sarah
14. April
15. Mark
16. Crystal
17. Tara
18. The Brain Lair
19. Jordan
20. Rachel