After 11-year-old James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin, a beetle, surprises him by creating an elaborate miniature drawing.
Masterpiece is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children\'s Book of the Year..
This time around it\'s an irresistible miniature world, fascinating art history, all wrapped up in a special friendship-- something for everyone to enjoy.
In Shakespeare\'s Secret Elise Broach showed her keen ability to weave storytelling with history and suspense, and Masterpiece is yet another example of her talent.
This fast-paced mystery will have young readers on the edge of their seats as they root for boy and beetle.
And that\'s where things get really complicated (and interesting!).
But James can\'t go through with the plan without Marvin\'s help.
James gets all the credit for the picture and before these unlikely friends know it they are caught up in a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that could help recover a famous drawing by Albrecht Dürer.
After James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin surprises him by creating an elaborate miniature drawing.
He is very much an eleven-year-old boy.
James Pompaday lives with his family in New York City.
He is very much a beetle.
Marvin lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays\' apartment.
A New York Times bestselling middle grade mystery novel full of adventure, friendship, and stolen art.
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James gets all the credit for the picture and before these unlikely friends know it they are caught up in a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
After 11-year-old James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin, a beetle, surprises him by creating an elaborate miniature drawing
