Going on the theory that there are no coincidences, the two wonder about the link between their teacher’s statements, Petra’s dreams, a book Petra finds in the library, and other clues that set the reader guessing as to their significance as well. Konigsburg and Agatha Christie, Balliett’s book follows young Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay as they piece together separate, seemingly disconnected events to locate The Lady Writing, a Vermeer painting that gets stolen en route to Chicago’s Art Institute. Cut from similar cloth to The Da Vinci Code while harkening back to E.
About the Book: A puzzling art theft is solved by two sixth-grade sleuths in a first-rate first novel by Blue Balliett, illustrated by Series of Unfortunate Events artist Brett Helquist.
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