- Fiction, Large type books, Mobiles (Sculpture), Missing persons
After 7th-grade friends Calder, Petra and Tommy go on a field trip to view Alexander Calder mobiles at a Chicago art museum, Calder accompanies his father on a business trip to a small village in England. A few days later, Calder and a donated Calder sculpture "The Minotaur" both disappear at the same time. Calder's father asks Petra and Tommy to fly to England to help find their friend.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Blue Balliett
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 390
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Scholastic Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781410410177
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