Book description
This is a mystery adventure story full of drama, death, intrigue and scandal, with colourful characters and an authentic historical setting. When boy actor Ben Button's fellow players are accused of stealing the priceless Lodovico plate, he sets out to save them from the shadow of the hangman's noose. Who…
Why read it?
1 author picked Rogues' Gold as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As well as being an author of children’s historical fiction, I am a writer and director of children’s plays (including a production at the Edinburgh Fringe performed by actors aged 11-14). So I am always drawn to plays about performing, and this book, set in Elizabethan England, provides a great insight into the world of English theatre in the era of Shakespeare.
The lead character is Ben Button, a boy player with a troupe that travels out of London to perform at a nobleman’s manor house. Our hero immediately becomes embroiled in a quest to discover who has stolen a…
From Andrew's list on middle grade children’s books set in Tudor England.
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