Twelfth, Janet Key
Twelfth, Janet Key
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Twelfth

Author: Janet Key

Narrator: Janet Key

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/19/2022


Synopsis

People aren't always what they play.

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.

In her compelling debut, Janet Key crafts a heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting others as they are.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha on July 10, 2022

I LOVED Twelfth; in fact it is probably the best middle grade book I've read this year. This is a fantastic and heartwarming mystery about finding your people, being who you truly are, and finding acceptance. Such relatable characters and situations, Key also does a great job of representing the LGBT......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on April 04, 2024

My final Maine Student Book Award Nominee for 23|24. This one was just fine. I guess I wasn’t into the setting or the story. I wish it was about 100 pages shorter. I shouldn’t wait to read the book I’m least looking forward to for last.......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on May 28, 2022

Rating: 5/5 I'm a huge theatre nerd so when I saw the plot of Twelfth I knew I had to take a trip to the bookstore Pros:-this was such a fun read! I loved getting to piece together the clues while reading -Maren was such a deeply relatable character, she was trying her best to deal with the world a......more

Goodreads review by t s a r on July 24, 2024

"You know, when I was your age, this would have been exactly my dream cone true. But after living the life I got to live? Just goes to show you, I was dreaming too small." Thank you, Janet Key, Little Brown Books, and TBR Beyond Tours for giving me a digital advanced copy of Twelfth in ex......more

Goodreads review by Cathy | A Case Full of Books on September 05, 2022

This was a fun mystery, but was a bit long in my opinion. It's definitely on the older middle grade/young YA side. It definitely has some more mature content than I'd let, say, my 8 year old read. This book centers around a theater summer camp preparing to perform the play Twelfth Night. It has a rea......more