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Under the egg
Format:
Book
Title:
Under the egg
ISBN:
9780803740013

9780142427651
Publication:
New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]
Physical Description:
247 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather's painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That's great news for Theo, who's struggling to hang onto her family's two-hundred-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather's legacy of $463. There's just one problem: Theo's grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting may be stolen. With the help of some unusual new friends, Theo's search for answers takes her all around Manhattan, and introduces her to a side of the city-and her grandfather-that she never knew. To solve the mystery, she'll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time.

"From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle grade debut."--Publisher.

Amazon Editors recommend this book for readers who want books with more complexity and length (with content suitable for a pre-teen audience).
Reading Level:
Middle School.

790 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 5.5.

Reading Counts! 5.2.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.5 7.0 166756.
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