She and I read the book together, because I knew there was sensitive content thanks to another review, and I needed to censor that area of the book. This was purchased for a 5th grade Book Club for my daughter. Debuts this good are meant to be discovered.” - SLJ Fuse 8 Blog “Riveting from start to finish.” - BookPage “Uniquely readable, entirely charming, and a pleasure from start to finish. To solve the mystery, she'll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time. With the help of some unusual new friends, Theo's search for answers takes her all around Manhattan, and introduces her to a side of the city-and her grandfather-that she never knew. There’s just one problem: Theo’s grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting may be stolen. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather’s legacy of $463. 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 seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath.
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