Twelfth

"Twelve-year-old Maren hesitantly enters summer theater camp and finds clues of a mystery about the camp's founding, linking back to the Lavender Scare in Hollywood"--

About the author

When Janet Key was twelve, she sang and danced onstage, stayed up too late reading Shakespeare, and had a closet full of themed, handsewn vests. This is her first novel.l. 

Summary

Better Nate Than Ever meets The Parker Inheritance in this heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting others as they are.

Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theater camp isn’t for her. Theater camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people like her older sister, Hadley—the last person Maren wants to think about—and her cinema-obsessed, nonbinary bunkmate, Theo. But when a prank goes wrong, Maren gets drawn into the hunt for a diamond ring that, legend has it, is linked to the camp’s namesake, Charlotte “Charlie” Goodman, a promising director in Blacklist Era Hollywood.
 
When Maren connects the clues to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, she and her new friends are off searching through lighting booths, orchestra pits and costume storages, discovering the trail and dodging camp counselors. But they’re not the only ones searching for the ring, and with the growing threat of camp closing forever, they're almost out of time.

Foreword

Better Nate Than Ever meets The Parker Inheritance in a cozy, heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting people as they are.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Key
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2022
• EAN: 9780316669313
• ISBN: 978-0-316-66931-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; USA, 20th Century, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, United States of America, USA, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQ+, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women