- Families, Beetles, Juvenile fiction, Artists
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Resolved, contemporary, classical in form and warm.
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Elise Broach
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 290
- Publisher
- Brand: Macmillan Young Listeners, Macmillan Young Listeners, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781427205148
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