Blue Balliett, Scholastic Press, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-439-85209-8
Balliett's (Chasing Vermeer) latest mystery spotlights the life of Charles Darwin with a boy's investigation into a stolen scientific notebook. Zoomy Chamberlain, 12, has bad eyesight, a touch of OCD, and a need for structure ("[T]he smallest...
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Blue Balliett. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-545-29988-6
The Pearl family doesn’t have much beside a shelf of books and a tight-knit bond between parents Dash and Summer and kids Early, 11, and her younger brother, Jubilation. When Dash disappears after taking a second job that involves transferring used...
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Blue Balliett, read by Bahni Turpin. Scholastic Audiobooks, unabridged, seven CDs, 7.75 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-0-545-49766-4
Eleven-year-old Early loves her family: her father, Dashiell (called Dash), who works at a library and enjoys wordplay of all kinds; her mother, Summer (called Sum); and her little brother, Jubilation (called Jubie). Together they call their family "
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Blue Balliett. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-29990-9
Calder, Petra, and Tommy from Chasing Vermeer and its sequels join forces with Zoomy from The Danger Box and Early from Hold Fast to investigate the “biggest art robbery ever to happen in the United States”: the heist of 13 paintings and sculptures...
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Blue Balliett, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator , illus. by Brett Helquist. Scholastic $16.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-439-37294-7
Puzzles nest within puzzles in this ingeniously plotted and lightly delivered first novel that, revolving around the heist of a Vermeer painting, also touches on the nature of coincidence, truth, art and similarly meaty topics. Petra Andalee and...
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Blue Balliett, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator , illus. by Brett Helquist. Scholastic/Apple $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-439-37297-8
"Puzzles nest within puzzles in this ingeniously plotted and lightly delivered first novel that, revolving around the heist of a Vermeer painting," PW
said in a starred review. Ages 8-12. (May)
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Blue Balliett, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator . Scholastic $16.99 (318p) ISBN 978-0-439-69367-7
Unlike the set-up in Balliett's Chasing Vermeer
, no crime has been committed—yet—when Petra, Calder and Tommy begin the final weeks of sixth grade in the University of Chicago's Laboratory School. But the class does wonder if it&
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Blue Balliett, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator , illus. by Brett Helquist. Scholastic $17.99 (379p) ISBN 978-0-439-85207-4
Acclaimed for her sophisticated juggling of art concepts, mystery, philosophy and storytelling, Balliett (Chasing Vermeer
) outdoes herself with this ambitious novel. Like its predecessors, it asks readers to consider big ideas, this time using the...
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Blue Balliett. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-86756-6
Two interrelated problems have raised tensions on Nantucket, a normally serene island off the Massachusetts coast. One is the clash between a chronic shortage of affordable housing and wealthy outsiders buying up rickety homes that once belonged to...
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