Masterpiece (Masterpiece Adventures)

by Elise Broach (Author) Kelly Murphy (Illustrator)

Masterpiece (Masterpiece Adventures)
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Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Masterpiece Adventures
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After 11-year-old James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin, a beetle, surprises him by creating an elaborate miniature drawing. James gets all the credit for the picture and before these unlikely friends know it they are caught up in a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Illustrations.
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Publishers Weekly

Starred Review
Inventive ... Broach ... packs this fast-moving story with perennially seductive themes: hidden lives and secret friendships, miniature worlds lost to disbelievers ... Broach and Kelly show readers something new.

Kirkus

Delightful intricacies of beetle life—a cottonball bed, playing horseshoes with staples and toothpicks—blend seamlessly with the suspenseful caper as well as the sentimental story of a complicated-but-rewarding friendship that requires a great deal of frantic leg-wiggling on Marvin’s part. Murphy’s charming pen-and-ink drawings populate the short chapters of this funny, winsome novel.

School Library Journal

Starred Review
This marvelous story is sure to be a hit.

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Elise Broach
Elise Broach lives in Easton, Connecticut. David Catrow lives in Springfield, Ohio.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780312608705
Lexile Measure
700
Guided Reading Level
U
Publisher
Square Fish
Publication date
March 30, 2010
Series
Masterpiece Adventures
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV002140 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Insects, Spiders, etc.
JUV003000 - Juvenile Fiction | Art & Architecture
JUV028000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
Library of Congress categories
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