Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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The Assassin's Guide to Love & Treason
by Virginia Boecker
Ages: 14+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company/Hachette
ISBN: 978-0-316-32734-3
Keywords: Elizabethan England, Theater, Religious persecution
In 1601, Katherine joins a Catholic group plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth. Toby, the Queen's spy, sets a traps for the would-be assassins using Shakespeare's new play as bait.