He pretended to be unconscious, then followed the thief to the treehouse, where he found the painting and succumbed to his concussion.Īmid these events, Calder’s friend, Tommy Segovia, writes that his stepfather has abandoned the family in New York, where they recently moved. Calder had hit his head in the altercation. While they’re searching, the thief takes the painting out of the patrol car.īack home, Petra finds Calder unconscious with the painting under his arm in her neighbor’s treehouse. Petra and a policeman return to the playground where she last saw Calder. On exiting the school, the thief begins chasing them, and Calder stays behind, urging Petra to run on with the painting. Calder has an epiphany, connecting himself and Petra with the number 12. Hussey received one of the letters and begin to suspect that the painting is somewhere on school grounds. The thief claims that once the art world has repudiated the authenticity of the paintings, he’ll return A Lady Writing. The thief sends a letter to the Chicago Tribune stating that he’s stolen the painting to raise awareness that someone else painted some of Vermeer’s paintings. Before the painting arrives, it’s stolen. For Halloween, she dresses as the lady, and Calder recognizes her as the woman in Vermeer’s painting, A Lady Writing.Ī Lady Writing is on its way from the National Gallery to an exhibit in Chicago. Meanwhile, Petra has a vision of a lady in an antiquated dress with pearl earrings. Sharpe and notices she has a copy of the picture from his Geography box, The Geographer by Johannes Vermeer. Petra chooses Lo! by Charles Fort, a strange book in which Fort posits that life is not a series of coincidences but is an interconnecting web of patterns.Ĭalder and Petra learn that Lo! used to belong to Mrs. Calder chooses a Geographer’s box with a painting on it. Hussey’s next assignment requires the children to present their interpretation of art. Calder is obsessed with pentominoes that he keeps in his pocket and uses to send and receive coded messages, while Petra is an adventurer. One day after school, Calder follows Petra to Powell’s Bookstore, and the pair run into each other, beginning their unusual friendship.
Isabel Hussey, gives several assignments related to unique letters and letters found in works of art. In the days that follow, Petra and Calder’s teacher, Ms.
The letters ask for the recipients’ help in solving a centuries-old art mystery. The story begins with three residents of Hyde Park receiving anonymous letters. The story takes place in contemporary Hyde park on Chicago’s south side, spanning three months. The novel’s third-person narrative follows Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay, two gifted sixth-grade students at the University of Chicago’s innovative Laboratory School, as they recover a stolen painting using hidden patterns.
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