![]() ![]() ![]() Theodora Tenpenny (Theo) is a thirteen year old girl with a lot of responsibility. Thankfully, I found this story to be both delightful and smart, a winning combination. Plus that cover is all kinds of adorable. For that, I determined Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald was going to be a book for me. I don't read a lot of Middle Grade books, but I'm a huge fan of art themes, museums and the possibility of discovering priceless artifacts I never knew I had. To solve the mystery, she'll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time. ![]() With the help of some unusual new friends, Theo's search for answers takes her all around New York City, and introduces her to a side of the city-and her grandfather-that she never knew. ![]() There’s just one problem: her grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Theo worries the painting may be stolen. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old Greenwich Village townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather’s legacy of $463. Summary: When her Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an Old Master painting underneath. ![]()
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