6/20/2023 0 Comments Twelfth by Janet Key![]() ![]() Supposedly the clues may lead to a valuable diamond ring hidden somewhere on campus, the sale of which could save the struggling camp before the owners must sell out to a Walmart-like corporation. The camp must be in Florida.) A teacher disappears, there’s rumors of the camp founder’s ghost appearing, and suddenly Maren keeps finding clues hidden for her – pieces of text from the summer production of Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT. (Which, really? At a sleepover theatre camp in the year 2022? I’m dubious, but okay. ![]() ![]() Stung and resentful, Maren arrives at camp ready to grit her teeth through the summer then she accidentally finds herself making friends with Theo, a nonbinary camper who endures bullying for using they/them pronouns. Theatre was her sister’s thing – until she became dangerously depressed and became the focal point of their family once again. Maren, a shy middle grader who has always lived in her talented, outgoing older sister’s shadow, can’t believe that her parents have dumped her off at the same theatre camp where her sister was a shining star for so many years. But it also meant that this book had a high standard to meet. Which you know, if you’ve read that novel and read my opinion of it, could only be another argument in TWELFTH’s favor. This is basically an LGBTQ+ version of Varian Johnson’s brilliant THE PARKER INHERITANCE: a group of middle schoolers in the present day work against the clock to find a hidden treasure. ![]()
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