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This really sounds like An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker except for its 2018 copyright.
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<div>But I feel like there was another very similar book waaay back WHEN I was in high school (2000-2004), so I wonder if you put the above title into NovelList (which excels at pulling up very aged YA books, sigh) it might find your patron’s book?</div>
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This might be an option, The Course of All Treasons by Suzanne M. Wolfe https: //www. penguinrandomhouse. com/books/612114/the-course-of-all-treasons-by-suzanne-m-wolfe/ Main Character is named Nicholas, "Nick" and he's an Elizabethan</div>
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<i>The Course of All Treasons</i> by Suzanne M. Wolfe</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Main Character is named Nicholas, "Nick" and he's an Elizabethan Spy, don't know if he joins the company of Shakespeare though.</div>
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<div>I could use a little help from the librarian hive mind! A patron approached me with a book stumper yesterday, and I've had no luck searching on my own. She is looking for a book she checked out from her high school library (so we're looking at a 2011 or
earlier publication date) about a boy who works as a spy and joins Shakespeare's play company. It was historical & spy fiction without any magical elements, and she remembers a section at the back of the book with spy codes. She insists this book was
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