As Hero starts sixth grade at her new school, she finds a 500-year-old mystery hidden in her house. There is a diamond that mysteriously connects Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn, and William Shakespeare. But was the man who wrote Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream really Shakespeare?  Hero isn’t the only one on the case. Danny Cordova, “the most popular boy in school (and the cutest),” wants to help Hero solve the mystery and uncover Shakespeare’s true identity…

Reviewed by Kathleen Kenealy and Sima Biondi