Hilgartner, Beth.  A Murder For Her Majesty.  New York : Houghton Miflin, 1992. Reviewed by Joanna B.,  Rundlett Middle School

 

 
 
 

I was in the book store with my Mom and I was going to buy another book when this one caught my eye.  I'm very big on first impressions so I grabbed this book because I thought it had a very intriguing title.  It's about a girl who witnesses her father's murder.  It takes place in the Elizabethan time period.  The girl sets off to find a relative who her father said would be a good person to go to if something happened to him.  The girl lives in London and her relative lives in Yorkshire.  On her way, she stumbles into two boys who are choir members at a church in England and they take her in and dress her up as a boy.  She is now among all these boys in a youth choir.  She makes lots of new friends and is having a wonderful time.  Meanwhile there are people plotting to capture her because she knows who murdered her father.  It is suspenseful and reall well written.


March 2000

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