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The Shakespeare Plot 1: Assassin's Code by Alex Woolf (view source)
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Fortunately she meets up with Tom Cavendish, servant to the power-hungry Earl of Essex, and they decide to solve the code Alice's brother left behind, in order to find him and avert a terrible disaster. Their quest takes them all over London, from the court of the Virgin Queen herself to the slums near the Lud Gate and the putrid banks of the Thames. It would be too easy for an author to overload such scenes with detail after detail, in order to impress on young readers what life was really like in Elizabethan London, but the plot in this excellent book gallops along at such a brisk pace that the few bits of information given simply add to the drama. A thrilling climax, which takes place at Shakespeare's Globe itself, will have young readers on the edge of their seats, frantically racing through the pages to discover what happen to the two young friends.
There are some excellent historical novels for young people out there, which combine all the excitement and danger of contemporary adventures with authentic, well-researched settings. Another story centred around Shakespeare's theatre and the court of Elizabeth I is [[Road to London by Barbara Mitchelhill]], and further conspiracies abound in [[The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands]], set in the world of the seventeenth -century apothecaries. For a more recent historical setting readers could try [[A Medal for Leroy by Michael Morpurgo]], which has as much to tell young readers about war and colour prejudice as any school textbook. You might also enjoy [[Transference by B T Keaton]].
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