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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 an Albrecht Dčurer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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"Murphy's own pen-and-ink spot art reflects the text's sweet insouciance. With suspense, art history, complex family relationships (human and arthropod), and a resonant friendship, this enjoyable outing will satisfy the reserved and adventurous alike."--"Booklist"
"With overtones of "Chasing Vermeer" and "The Borrowers," this inventive mystery involves two families that inhabit the same Manhattan apartment . . . Broach packs this fast-moving story with perennially seductive themes: hidden lives and secret friendships, miniature worlds lost to disbelievers."--"Publishers Weekly"
"This is a great mystery for young adolescents."--"KLIATT"
"Delightful intricacies of beetle life . . . 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."--"Kirkus Reviews
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"With overtones of "Chasing Vermeer" and "The Borrowers," this inventive mystery involves two families that inhabit the same Manhattan apartment . . . Broach packs this fast-moving story with perennially seductive themes: hidden lives and secret friendships, miniature worlds lost to disbelievers."--"Publishers Weekly"
"This is a great mystery for young adolescents."--"KLIATT"
"Delightful intricacies of beetle life . . . 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."--"Kirkus Reviews
A fast-paced mystery about stolen art, forgery and friendship between boy and beetle!
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 141041244X
- ISBN 13 9781410412447
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages367
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Masterpiece (Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series)
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