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Under the Egg

Amazon.com Price:  $5.39 (as of 01/05/2019 07:30 PST- Details)

Description

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle grade debut

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what appears to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her circle of relatives’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse and give a boost to her unstable mother on her grandfather’s legacy of $463. There’s just one problem: Theo’s grandfather was once a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting is also stolen.

With the assistance of some extraordinary new friends, Theo’s seek for answers takes her all around Manhattan, and introduces her to a side of the city—and her grandfather—that she never knew. To solve the mystery, she’ll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time.

“Uniquely readable, entirely charming, and a pleasure from start to finish. Debuts this good are supposed to be came upon.” —SLJ Fuse 8 Blog

“Riveting from start to finish.” —BookPage 


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