The Calder Game
This new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett is now available in After Words paperback!When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is...
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This new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett is now available in After Words paperback!When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings towards it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place . . . and then, on the same night, they disappear! Calder's friends Petra and Tommy must fly out to help his father find him. But this mystery has more twists and turns than a Calder mobile . . . with more at stake than first meets the eye.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780439852081 (0439852080)
ASIN: 439852080
Publish date: April 1st 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Mystery,
Art,
Chapter Books,
Mathematics,
Puzzles
Series: Chasing Vermeer (#3)
I believe this is the first time in a couple of years that I read a middle grade book. The only reason I even picked it up was because I had read the first two books in the series in middle school and adored them. So I set out to complete the series. It was such an interesting experience becau...
If you've read the other two books in this series, you'll know exactly what to expect. And you really should, both because they're both very good books and because you really need to in order to fully appreciate this one. The stakes start out higher, with the mystery being the theft of a famous stat...
The other current read-aloud. Loved it, the mystery, the puzzles, the adventure.