Sharpe, who may be playing her own kind of game with the clues. and has a word or two to say about the missing treasure.The kids have been drawn in by the very mysterious Mrs. Now they've been matched with two new sleuths - Zoomy, a very small boy with very thick glasses, and Early, a girl who treasures words. THE PLAYERSCalder, Petra, and Tommy are no strangers to heists and puzzles. And nobody has any idea where they and the other eleven artworks might be.

They have three kids who still love the neighborhood, a recent grandson, and a large and cowardly cat.From the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of CHASING VERMEER and HOLD FAST THE PIECESThirteen extremely valuable pieces of art have been stolen from one of the most secretive museums in the world. She was a classroom teacher at The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools but now writes full-time, working in the laundry room of the Hyde Park home she shares with her husband. Having grown up in New York City and studied art history at Brown University, Blue Balliett has lived in Chicago for many years. Myers Achievement Award, for 'extraordinary contributions to literacy.' Balliett’s books appear in 35 languages. She has appeared twice on NBC's Today Show.īook Worm Angels, a Chicago-based organization that provides a steady flow of thousands of books to classrooms in public schools across the city, gave Balliett the 2012 Kermit W. Or is it sparkle? In Balliett’s work, surprise at many levels is the name of the game.īalliett has won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel, Chicago Tribune Prize for Young Adult Fiction, Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, Book Sense Book of the Year Award, Great Lakes Book Award, Friends of American Writers Award, Agatha Award for Best YA Novel, Chicago Tribune’s Chicagoan of the Year for Literature, 2010, and a place in the official White House library as The Danger Box was handed to President Obama in January 2011 as a gift from the American Booksellers Association. Hold Fast breaks new ground in ways that will startle. Each combines real settings with an unlikely array of real-world ingredients.

Download Blue Balliett's full-color biography (PDF)īlue Balliett's first four mysteries- Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game, and The Danger Box-have been The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today and IndieBound bestsellers.

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