PDF / EPUB File Name: Chasing_Vermeer_Chasing_Vermeer_1_-_Blue_Balliett.pdf, Chasing_Vermeer_Chasing_Vermeer_1_-_Blue_Balliett.epub.Book Genre: Academic, Adventure, Art, Childrens, Fiction, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, School, Young Adult.Full Book Name: Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1).
Ages 8-12.Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1) by Blue Balliett – eBook Detailsīefore you start Complete Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1) PDF EPUB by Blue Balliett Download, you can read below technical ebook details: Thick with devilish red herrings, this smart, playful story never stops challenging (and exhilarating) the audience. Helquist (the Lemony Snicket books) compounds the fun with drawings that incorporate the pentomino idea to supply visual clues as well. Konigsburg, but Balliett is an original: her protagonists also receive clues through dreams, pentominoes (math tools with alphabetic correspondences), secret codes (including some left to readers to decipher) and other deliberately non-rational devices.
The art mystery and the crisp intelligence of the prose immediately recall E.L. These mysteries deepen exponentially when someone steals a Vermeer masterpiece and holds it hostage, demanding scholarly redress for misattributions within Vermeer's small oeuvre.
For reasons unknown to her students, the teacher asks her class to ponder the importance of letters (the epistolary sort) and to mull over Picasso's ideas about art as "a lie that tells the truth." Readers have the edge on the characters, being privy to an enigmatic letter sent to three unidentified persons outlining a centuries-old "crime" against a painter's artistic legacy. Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay become friends in sixth grade at a school operated by the University of Chicago (Balliett taught at the University's Lab Schools), both of them independent thinkers excited by their maverick teacher, Ms. 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.
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