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J AVI	Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi. Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
J COL	Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll Sequels: The Arctic Incident; The Eternity Code; The Opal Deception.
J COL	Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. See the Gregor the Overlander Webliography!
J DEF	The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice. Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking Allie's help.
J FUN	The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke. Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."
J HOE	Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye (a Hermux Tantamoq adventure). When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamoq is caught up in a world of dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to find out what happened to her.
J IBB	The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson. After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
J KON	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg. Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12-year-old Claudia unexpectedly finds herself involved in an intriguing art mystery.
J RAN	The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
J SAC	Holes by Louis Sachar. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

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Chasing Vermeer Homepage
Read reviews and excerpts from the publisher of Chasing Vermeer. Play a game of Pentominoes online or print out your own game pieces to carry in your pocket like Calder!

Chasing Vermeer Online Activities
This site has loads of activities related to the book. Play pentominoes. Explore other art, science, & history mysteries. Visit art museums like the Museum of Modern Art.

KidsReads.com
Read a review of Chasing Vermeer and an excerpt from the book!

Other Fun & Interesting Sites

Artemis Fowl’s Gnommish Alphabet
Play the Decoder Game using the Gnommish alphabet from the Artemis Fowl books.

Art Theft at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Read about the real theft of a Vermeer painting in 1990 at this museum in Boston on the FBI website.

The Essential Vermeer
Look at The Geographer and A Lady Writing up close. Look at all the Vermeer paintings and decide for yourself which are the “real” Vermeers.

Famous Art Heists
Look at other raids - and recoveries - over the years, such as the theft of The Scream by Munch.

FBI for Kids
Follow a case through the FBI lab, read about the day in the life of a secret agent in Washington, take the special agent challenge, and more!

The Fin Fur and Feathers Bureau of Investigation
Play games like "I Left My Art in San Francisco" where you help Le Moo thwart a picture perfect crime. Lots of hard-boiled mystery games.

Sensational Art Heist from Mona Lisa to Munch’s The Scream
Find out about famous art thefts and how the criminals tried to get away with it!

Write Like an Egyptian
Write your name in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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