Displaying rare knacks for both lively classroom banter and sensitive portrayals of complex dynamics within a close but stressed family, Madden-Lunsford hands 10-year-old Angus Gettlefinger the challenge of convincing his reluctant teacher to allow him to perform a version of Hamlet with a werewolf cast.
Humor, heart, and Shakespeare abound in this middle-grade novel about Angus, a 10-year-old theater fanatic, his struggling family, and his changing relationship with big brother Liam.
Werewolf Hamlet is a middle-grade hoot about a theater-obsessed kid named Angus who wants to stage his play, Werewolf Hamlet, for his fifth grade class (now that’s one school play I’d love to attend). Meanwhile, his older brother is getting weird and maybe drinking too much, and his family is facing some serious financial struggles.
