Pub Date: March 30, 2010
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0700
Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 09 to 12
Physical Info: 0.90" H x 7.60" L x 5.10" W ( 0.57 lbs) 320 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Art | Mysteries and Detective Stories | Humorous Stories | Animals | Insects Spiders etc
Series: Masterpiece Adventures
Description: 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.
Brief description: Kelly Murphy has illustrated many books for children including Masterpiece, Alex and the Amazing Time Machine, and the Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist books. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Review Quotes:
"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." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Delightful intricacies of beetle life ... blend seamlessly with the suspenseful caper as well as the sentimental story of a complicated-but-rewarding friendship ... Murphy's charming pen-and-ink drawings populate the short chapters of this funny, winsome novel." --Kirkus Reviews "This marvelous story is sure to be a hit." --School Library Journal