Shakespeare's Secret by:Elise Broach

I am reading a book called Shakespeare's Secret. It is a very good book. It is about a girl named Hero which is the main character who is living in this house that use to be own by this guy named Mr.Murphy and his wife Eleanor. Eleanor has a necklace that had a big diamond on it but someone stole it... the police thinks that Murphy stole it to pay for Eleanor to get better. Eleanor had heart cancer, So she didn't have ever much time left.

Mrs.Roth is the neighbor to Hero an her family. Hero is trying to help Mrs. Roth find out if the diamond is still int he house or not. I think it is. Mrs. Roth and Hero have been researching on the necklace and it used to belong to Anna Boleyn, the mother of Queen Elizabeth the first. So when Anna got beheaded by her husband, she gave the necklace to Queen Elizabeth. Mrs. Roth thinks that Queen Elizabeth got pregnant and had birth to Edward De Vere Oxford. But in the history books it says that Queen Elizabeth never gave birth, but apparently she did.

So Queen Elizabeth tried to keep it a secret that she had a son. So she paid her son Edward Twelve thousand pounds a year to make plays and to make sure he doesn't tell anyone that she is his mom. So Mrs. Roth and Hero think that Edward is the secret Shakespeare because he loved to write and make plays and he was very intelligent. So they think that he was because Shakespeare was not qualified to write what Shakespeare wrote so they think it was a fake.

Then find the diamond in a light out side. Hero thought that that was just a light that keep the outside light but they could never find the light switch. So when Danny came to look with her for the diamond but the y couldn't find it inside in any of the lights so they just gave up.

When Danny is about to leave he says,"Hey, there's another light, maybe it is there."

But Hero thinks that it isn't in there because they can't even find the light switch. But Danny wants to check, so they check in there, and guess what is next? They unscrew the ball around it an then the Murphy diamond falls out. They look at each other and say "Wow!" They are both so happy.

But Danny takes it home and then without asking Hero he mails it to his mom that lives in L.A. When Hero finds out, she is very mad so they go and tell Mrs. Roth. Danny sent it to his mom because he didn't know that they had the necklace an because his mom wants to be an actress so she need to have a class an she is very very poor. So that is what happens so far it is a really good book.

One of my friends has read the book an she said that it was a really weird ending. But I thing it is going to be a really good ending myself.