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Hicks, Deron. THE VAN GOGH DECEPTION New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017] IL 3-6 ISBN 9780544759275 (2 booktalks) |
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Booktalk #1 Art and Camille race around Washington DC on a wintry night, tangling with elite operatives and foiling crime they don't understand. Twelve-year-old Art was found on a bench in the National Gallery of Art, alone and struck with amnesia. He is placed with ten-year-old Camille and her mother in emergency foster care. Criminal mastermind Dorchek Palmer and his highly skilled covert operatives will stop at nothing to protect the sale of a forged Van Gogh, including hacking, and erasing security footage across the city and kidnapping Art and Camille. (Prepared by: Victoria Smith, Reidville Elementary School, victoria.smith@spart5.net for South Carolina Book Award) Booktalk #2 A boy named “Art” is found with amnesia in the National Gallery in Washington D.C. With help from his friend Camille, Art seeks to solve two mysteries at the same time - who he is and why somebody doesn’t want him to remember. (Connecticut Nutmeg Award https://www.nutmegaward.org/) |
| SUBJECTS: Mystery and detective stories. Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction. Identity -- Fiction. Memory -- Fiction. Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction. |
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