Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine!
This week I'm waiting on...
This week I'm waiting on...
by Erin Dionne
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Publisher: Dial
Age Group: Middle Grade
For fans of The Westing Game and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes a clever, treasure-hunt mystery based on a real-life art heist.
Moxie Fleece knows the rules and follows them--that is, until the day she opens her front door to a mysterious stranger. Suddenly Moxie is involved in Boston's biggest unsolved mystery: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist. Moxie has two weeks to find the art, otherwise she and the people she loves will be in big-time danger.
Her tools? Her best friend, Ollie, a geocaching addict who loves to find stuff; her Alzheimer's suffering grandfather, Grumps, who knows lots more than he lets on; and a geometry proof that she sets up to sort out the clues.
It's a race against the clock through downtown Boston as Moxie and Ollie break every rule she's ever lived by to find the art and save her family.
Why? I was actually first introduced to this book by my local librarian, and I love the sound of it (THE WESTING GAME? MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER? Yes, please!) Recently I've also been reading a lot of middle grade too, and this book sounds like just the right mystery!
What are you waiting on this week? And what do you think of this book? Have you heard of it? I'd love to know :D
