The Wright 3

Dreamer, Wisher, Liar

Frannie in Pieces

The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S.

The Metropolitans

Figure It Out, Henri Weldon

Before I Let Go

Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Secret Letters

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle-grade debut.

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather’s legacy of $463. There’s just one problem: Theo’s grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting may be stolen.

With the help of some unusual new friends, Theo’s search for answers takes her all around Manhattan, and introduces her to a side of the city—and her grandfather—that she never knew. To solve the mystery, she’ll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time.


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The Wright 3

Brett Helquist, Blue Balliett, 2006

Dreamer, Wisher, Liar

Charise Mericle Harper, 2014

Frannie in Pieces

Delia Ephron, Chad Beckerman, 2007

The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S.

David Levithan, 2021

The Metropolitans

Carol Goodman, 2017

Figure It Out, Henri Weldon

Tanita S. Davis, 2023

Before I Let Go

Marieke Nijkamp, 2018

Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Secret Letters

Margaret Peterson Haddix, 2022