Now, thanks to Hadley’s illness, she’s stuck in the middle of the woods with a bunch of theater kids she doesn’t know - and, as it turns out, possibly a ghost. “It felt as if some part of her she had unknowingly been trying to keep small was finally able to stretch out,” she thought. It only bothered her a little, growing up, to be perpetually stuck in Hadley’s shadow, but she was looking forward to things being different after her sister left home to study theater in New York. Clever, quiet Maren prefers life outside the spotlight. Theater is Hadley’s dream, not Maren’s, and the camp, nestled in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, used to be Hadley’s place to shine. They have their hands full caring for her older sister Hadley, who is in treatment for depression after dropping out of college. It was not 12-year-old Maren Sands’ idea to attend Charlotte Goodman Theater Camp, but her parents insisted. “The play’s the thing” in Twelfth, Janet Key’s lively debut novel for middle-grade readers.
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