The total tradegy of a girl named Hamlet

The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne

Do your parents ever embarrass you? How about when your not at home, but with your friends somewhere? Do you hate the name they gave you? Do you have a younger brother or sister that is a brainiac or could show you up in just about anything? - Well welcome to Hamlet's world.

Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But given her family - a genius seven-year-old siter who is attending middle school with her, and Shakespearean scholar parents who show up like a walking, talking REnaissance Faire - that's not terribly easy.
School 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) seem 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 on Hamlet's eighth-grade year might just close to overwhelming applause.

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