From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. -- BookPage. -- SLJ Fuse 8 Blog Riveting from start to finish.
Debuts this good are meant to be discovered.
Uniquely readable, entirely charming, and a pleasure from start to finish.
To solve the mystery, she\'ll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time.
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.
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.
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.
Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle grade debut 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.
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs