A Couple of April Fools

Gregory Maguire. Clarion Books, $16 (182pp) ISBN 978-0-618-27474-1

The sixth title in the Hamlet Chronicles series, A Couple of April Fools by Gregory Maguire, illus. by Elaine Clayton, continues where Three Rotten Eggs left off. In this installment, Thekla Mustard is unseated as Empress of the Tattletales and Miss Earth disappears; her students develop theories as to what might have happened, as they search the Vermont wilderness for her.

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