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Chasing Vermeer / by Blue Balliett ; illustrated by Brett Helquist.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2018]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 254 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780439372978
  • 0439372976
  • 9780756951085
  • 0756951089
  • 9781435299801
  • 1435299809
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Three deliveries -- The letter is dead -- Lost in the art -- Picasso's lie -- Worms, snakes, and periwinkles -- The geographer's box -- The man on the wall -- A Halloween surprise -- The blue ones -- Inside the puzzle --Nightmare -- Tea at four -- X the experts -- Flashing lights -- Murder and hot chocolate -- A morning in the dark -- What happens now? -- A bad fall -- The shock on the stairs -- A maniac -- Looking and seeing -- Twelves -- Help! -- The pieces.
  • A Junior Library Guild selection.
  • Agatha Awards, 2004.
  • Parents Choice Award Silver, 2004.
  • Edgar Allan Poe Awards, 2005.
  • Book Sense Book of the Year Award, 2005.
  • Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominee, 2005.
  • Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award, 2005.
  • Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee, 2006.
  • Bluebonnet Awards Nominee, 2006.
  • Land of Enchantment Book Award Nominee, 2006.
  • Sequoyah Book Awards Nominee, 2006.
  • Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee, 2007.
  • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee, 2007.
  • William Allen White Childens Book Award Nominee, 2007.
  • Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee, 2007.
Summary: When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. First book in the series featuring art sleuth friends Calder and Petra.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction BALLIETT BLUE 1 Available 33111010770945
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This bewitching first novel is a puzzle, wrapped in a mystery, disguised as an adventure, and delivered as a work of art. Chasing Vermeer joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?

"Scholastic Gold includes After Words: bonus content, interviews, and interactivity inside"--Page 4 of cover

When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. First book in the series featuring art sleuth friends Calder and Petra.

Three deliveries -- The letter is dead -- Lost in the art -- Picasso's lie -- Worms, snakes, and periwinkles -- The geographer's box -- The man on the wall -- A Halloween surprise -- The blue ones -- Inside the puzzle --Nightmare -- Tea at four -- X the experts -- Flashing lights -- Murder and hot chocolate -- A morning in the dark -- What happens now? -- A bad fall -- The shock on the stairs -- A maniac -- Looking and seeing -- Twelves -- Help! -- The pieces.

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8-12.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

Agatha Awards, 2004.

Parents Choice Award Silver, 2004.

Edgar Allan Poe Awards, 2005.

Book Sense Book of the Year Award, 2005.

Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominee, 2005.

Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award, 2005.

Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee, 2006.

Bluebonnet Awards Nominee, 2006.

Land of Enchantment Book Award Nominee, 2006.

Sequoyah Book Awards Nominee, 2006.

Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee, 2007.

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee, 2007.

William Allen White Childens Book Award Nominee, 2007.

Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee, 2007.

Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 5.4 6 Quiz 78186 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.

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