Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: G.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Violet and her twin brother Sebastian have been attending a private school together, but High School is a boarding school, and they feel, as their father recently passed away, that they should go to public school and continue to live at home. Violet is thrilled as she's always hated wearing the skirts required by the private school - she would rather dress like her brother. But at the last minute, Seb decides to board at the private school, so Vi is on her own in this Strange New High School. Vi makes a few friends right away, but things get weird when several of the boys all like the same girl - Olivia - and Olivia seems to like Vi.
Based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - a play about mistaken identity and disguising who you really are - I quickly accepted that the school is populated by both humans and fairies and that magic is a thing. While knowledge of Shakespeare's plays adds some fun elements to the story - kids at the school are characters from Twelfth Night as well as Midsummer Nights' Dream and others, Twelfth Grade Night is an engaging story on its own. The students speak freely about gender and sexual orientation, and are of diverse culture and races.
Lisa Librarian
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