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Original Title:	Chasing Vermeer
ISBN:	0439372941 (ISBN13: 9780439372947)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.scholastic.com/chasingvermeer
Series:	Chasing Vermeer #1
Characters:	Calder Pillay, Petra Andalee, Tommy Segovia
Setting:	Chicago, Illinois(United States) Illinois(United States)
Literary Awards:	Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature (2005), Agatha Award for Best Childrens Young Adult (2004), Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee (2005), Edgar Award for Best Juvenile (2005), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2007)

Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer #1)

Blue Balliett

Hardcover | Pages: 254 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 26868 Users | 2274 Reviews

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When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one — neighbors, parents, teachers — 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 left even the FBI baffled?

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Title	:	Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer #1)
Author	:	Blue Balliett
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 254 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2004 by Scholastic Press
Categories	:	Mystery. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Young Adult. Art

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Usually when I read finish reading a childrens book I didn't enjoy, I ask myself whether or not I would have enjoyed it 13 years ago. Sometimes my answer to me is "yes" and sometimes it is "no", but even with the nos, I can imagine some hypothetical audience of child enjoying a book.With this one, I can't imagine any demographic. Even gifted kids will probably need to have a savant-like interest in art (specifically Dutch Baroque art), or in the mathematical approach to coincidence, or in

good mystery

I had far too many problems with this book to even start to enumerate them. I'll just mention the one thing I really liked about sharing the experience of listening to this book (the first half) and then reading it aloud (the second) with my son. It so happened that when we reached the point in the story where Vermeer's painting "A Lady Writing" is introduced, we were visiting my mother's home in Northern Virginia. On the morning of the drive home, it turned out to be really easy to make our

I finished reading this to my 9-year-old last night, then poked around here on Goodreads, assessing what reader response had been when the book was originally published.I was surprised by how many reviewers didn't like this book, or couldn't finish it. Believe me, I understand the issues readers had with "plot points." Yes, the plot does unravel somewhat at the end. Yes, the "bad guy" here was a stretch of the imagination, and too many sloppy bits were thrown in at the end. I'm never a fan of

This book is OK. It's not really trying to be the Da Vinci Code for kids, but the movement in recent years with "smart" protagonists is definitely represented here. The two protagonists are very likable and I was interested in the glowingly positive representation of the Chicago School constructivist education model. The problem here is a common one in YA, but magnified in this book I think. The kids are too curious and diligent. I can believe the overly brave, adventurous kids in most YA more

Chasing Vermeer is a fun children's book, easy to read, with pictures that involve some thought, if you want to put that thought into it. (I am lazy, I did not.) I have some overall questions about the tack the book takes on Charles Fort and how it veers a little bit into magic without ever exploring that, but hey, a children's book that might introduce kids to Charles Fort? I'm pretty much in.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and

I read this in third grade, and I decided to read it again.....still an amazing book!