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Original Title: A Murder for Her Majesty
ISBN: 0395616190 (ISBN13: 9780395616192)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Yorkshire, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1988)
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Title:A Murder for Her Majesty
Author:Beth Hilgartner
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 256 pages
Published:January 20th 1992 by HMH Books for Young Readers (first published January 20th 1986)
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade

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I usually criticize books, and pick on every single bad thing about them. The characters are weak... The plot was limp, and "horrid"... Or, most terribly, the storytelling was atrocious. That wasn't the case with this book. And it pleasantly surprised me with no feminist sort of messages. "Girls can be like guys." "Girls are just as good as guys." "Girls aren't weak." "Girls are best." To those of you who know me well enough, you can probably imagine me saying those messages in a mocking tone. How I really hate those messages! So tiresome, and ultimately ruin a novel for me. And there was plenty of chances to do so in this book. Alice could have always been thinking up all the smart stuff. She could always be the hero. She could have become conceited and gotten a swollen head, and used her status to boss people around. Thank heavens she didn't. But what delighted me was the refreshing balance; she was witty, but not tiresomely. She was brave, but not in the way that makes one roll their eyes. A really wonderful character! I enjoyed her. Geoffrey kept me laughing. I enjoyed his witticism and his loyalty to his friends. Timothy was kind to Morris when I would have smacked him. I pleasantly hated "Father" whatsims. The Dame was easy to dislike, but one comes to see the softer heart at the ending. And although the introduction to Lady "Jenny" was brief, I ended up liking her! =) Good job, Hilgartner. The storytelling was, I'd have to say, really good, because it wasn't too slow so that I felt that it was wearisome, and wasn't too fast so that I couldn't catch what was going on. It was also intriguing and not from a narrative perspective (what some people might call an "I" book, from the perspective of the main character). This was a nice break, because lately I've been reading books that are like that. So I just happened to read this book at the right time. The funniest thing was that when they first mentioned Master Kenton (is that his name?), I thought, Oh, he's going to adopt Alice in the end. I didn't know anything about him. They hadn't said anything yet. But I just had this thought--and, obviously (spoiler!), this was not true, although I think he would have if he'd been allowed to. The plot was amazingly fantastic in the sense that it's quite out of this world. I never found out why it was that the men wanted to murder her father anyway, if it wasn't from the queen's orders. Why did they want to murder her? I don't know, but not every scrap of information is required to make a book a good one. So, reading this review, you'd think that I'd rate it five stars? Yes, why did I rate it four stars? I'm waiting for the perfect book to appear on the bookshelf one day. For now, I'd have to say that this is a clear favorite.

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2018 ReviewI forgot how much I adore this book. It is seriously so good. I love all the characters and the plot and the history. This is basically the definition of a five star read in my mind. Original ReviewI LOVE this book. I've read it OVER AND OVER AND OVER and I recommend it again and again!

I loved this book. It was fun, mysterious, and breath-taking all at the same time. The driving force of this book was the characters, and they were written marvelously well. I fell in love with Alice and her propensity to tell her superiors off. I grinned at Geoffrey, Orlando, Randall, and Nate, and their mischievous ways; I also admired their desire to help and protect Alice. The descriptions of the professors was amazing and very life-like; I came to love and understand the professors, even if

This is one of those books I wish I could go back and put in the hands of 10 yo me. A great adventure and mystery for children.

This was just as wonderful as I remember it being, and I never want to return this book to the library --I just made a really dumb update about this book not even ten minutes ago. I have been searching for this book FOR AGES. I was obsessed with it when I was in middle school and had since forgotten the title, only remembering the cover. FOREVER AND A DAY I have searched and finally, today, on the billionth page of google and after posing the worst search questions ever, I have finally found it!

I loved this book. In fact, about 25 pages before the end, I misplaced it in the house and had to turn everything upside down to find it. I really wanted to finish it, even though I knew everything would turn out well for the heroine. I think boys and girls would enjoy this book. There's lots of action. The main character is a girl, but nearly every other character is male. The choir boys are jolly and determined and always up for mischief. I read this to figure out when my children might be

A Murder for Her Majesty doesn't waste time getting started. Right in the first chapter, Alice is running away from home, and gets brought in by a group of choirboys, who decide to hide her in their house and even come up with a plan to disguise her as one of them. It's through flashback and background information that we find out how she got there.Alice had witnessed her father being murdered by two men, who claimed to be working for the Queen of England. Scared for her life, she heads off to

This was a read-aloud for our Sonlight curriculum. The oldest girl (who's curriculum it actually is) was NOT keen on it, since it's about a murder and she doesn't want to read about murders. And the younger ones took one look a the title and cover and decided they weren't going to sit in on this one. (I always give everyone the option with our read-alouds.) Yeah, well, that lasted about thirty seconds, by which time all the kids were hooked and waiting with bated breath to see what happened