The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Benjamin Franklin

The play’s the thing . . .To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Cat…

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