The Calder Game

2012-12-01
The Calder Game
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545279135
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This new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett is now available in After Words paperback!When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings towards it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place . . . and then, on the same night, they disappear! Calder's friends Petra and Tommy must fly out to help his father find him. But this mystery has more twists and turns than a Calder mobile . . . with more at stake than first meets the eye.

Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Gold)

2012-12-01
Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545541018
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Chasing Vermeer joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?

The Wright 3

2012-12-01
The Wright 3
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545362326
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From the New York Times-bestselling team behind Chasing Vermeer comes another thought-provoking art mystery featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house--now in After Words paperback! Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Stir in the return of Calder's friend Tommy (which creates a tense triangle), H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man, 3-D pentominoes, and the hunt for a coded message left behind by Wright, and the kids become tangled in a dangerous web in which life and art intermingle with death, deception, and surprise.

The Danger Box

2012-10-01
The Danger Box
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545532299
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An all-new mystery from the bestselling author of Chasing Vermeer and The Calder Game!A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing.A curious girl who doesn't belong.A mysterious notebook.A missing father.A fire.A stranger.A death.These are some of the things you'll find within The Danger Box, the new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett.Open with care.

Hold Fast

2013-03-01
Hold Fast
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545510198
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From NYT bestselling author Blue Balliett, the story of a girl who falls into Chicago's shelter system, and from there must solve the mystery of her father's strange disappearance. Where is Early's father? He's not the kind of father who would disappear. But he's gone . . . and he's left a whole lot of trouble behind.As danger closes in, Early, her mom, and her brother have to flee their apartment. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to move into a city shelter. Once there, Early starts asking questions and looking for answers. Because her father hasn't disappeared without a trace. There are patterns and rhythms to what's happened, and Early might be the only one who can use them to track him down and make her way out of a very tough place.With her signature, singular love of language and sense of mystery, Blue Balliett weaves a story that takes readers from the cold, snowy Chicago streets to the darkest corner of the public library, on an unforgettable hunt for deep truths and a reunited family.

Pieces and Players

2016-04-26
Pieces and Players
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780545299916
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When 13 high-value pieces of art are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra and Tommy are grouped with two new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.

Lacrosse

2011-08
Lacrosse
Author: Jim Calder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 9780986931413
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Out of the Wild Night

2018-03-27
Out of the Wild Night
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545867584
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vemeer an unforgettable story about an island haunted by the past . . . and the ghosts who must help with the present. Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket. You can hear them in the wind, and in the creaks of the old homes. They want to be remembered. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. The ghosts seem to have chosen a few local kids to be their messengers -- and to help save the island. But in this mystery, the line between those who haunt and those who are haunted is a thin one -- and the past and the present must come to terms with one another in order to secure the future.

Game Without Rules

2012-09-30
Game Without Rules
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755146689
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Mr. Calder lives with a golden deerhound named Rasselas. Mr. Behrens keeps bees. No one would suspect the pair are in fact agents and often tasked with jobs that no one else can take on. They are dangerous. Their adventures in this series of thrillers show the author to have a clear grasp of counterintelligence operations.