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. Grunsfeld (S.M., '84, Ph.D., '88) to send her pupils' literature and creative artwork into space during a routine Hubble Space Telescope mission on the Columbia space shuttle.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. During her tenure, she coordinated with NASA astronaut and University of Chicago alumnus John M. īefore releasing Chasing Vermeer, she taught third grade at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Balliett has also published two oral histories involving Nantucket ghost stories in the 1980s, which have been consolidated into one book, 'Nantucket Ghosts' released by Down East Books in 2006. Out of the Wild Night was published in 2018. Soon after, in 2015, Balliett published Pieces and Players. Her next book, Hold Fast was published in 2013.

The Danger Box was published in August 2010. Ī sequel, The Wright 3, was released in April, 2006, and a third, The Calder Game, was published two years later, in April 2008. In addition, she was awarded the Agatha Award in 2004 in the category Best Children's or Young Adult. The book was a bestseller and won a number of accolades and awards, including the 2005 Edgar Award in the Best Juvenile category. Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Jan Vermeer.

Ĭhasing Vermeer, released by Scholastic Press in 2004, is her best-known and most highly praised book. She was born Elizabeth Balliett, but her family started calling her Blue shortly after her birth. She is best known for her award-winning novel for children, Chasing Vermeer. Blue Balliett (born 1955 in New York) is an American author, who lives with her husband, three children, a grandson, and a cat.

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