Chasing Vermeer
Blue Balliett
This was a book for tweens.
Coincidences, patterns, and art all come in to play when an original Vermeer painting is stolen.
Petra and Calder forge a friendship when they are each mysteriously drawn to the painting, and when it goes missing, they are drawn to find it.
Calder's pentaminoes, Petra's mysterious book Lo!, and their wonderfully creative teacher Ms. Hussey help them to see patterns emerge from things that others dismiss as incidental. However, they find that it becomes difficult to distinguish real patterns from imagined.
Will they be able to find the painting in time? Is Ms. Hussey involved in its disappearance? Is she in danger? Are they?
This book with its mystery, secret codes, and problem solving was a fun way to spend a morning!
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