• Chasing Vermeer is a 2004 children's art mystery novel written by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist. Set in Hyde Park, Chicago near the...
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    Crossword". New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2020. Chasing Vermeer, with information about the book Chasing Vermeer and a click-and-drag pentomino board. Pritchard...
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    She is best known for her award-winning children’s novel, Chasing Vermeer. Chasing Vermeer, released by Scholastic Press in 2004, is her best-known and...
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    following is a list of paintings by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675). After two or three early history paintings, he concentrated...
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  • Mann's most popular book." (27 June 1993) Publishers Weekly on Chasing Vermeer: "Chasing Vermeer, which was published in 2004, has sold more than a million...
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  • April 1, 2006, and is the sequel to Balliett's 2004 children's novel Chasing Vermeer. It chronicles how Calder, Petra, and Tommy strive to save the Robie...
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    Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death. In Blue Balliett's novel Chasing Vermeer, the character Petra Andalee is named after the site. In 1979 Marguerite...
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  • The New Yorker Genevieve Angelson, actor Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer Anne Baxter, actor Mary Ellin Barrett, novelist Mary Catherine Bateson...
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  • Reese-Rat (2004), ISBN 0-06-050867-1 Books in the Chasing Vermeer series by Blue Balliett: Chasing Vermeer (2004), ISBN 0-439-37294-1 The Wright 3 (2006)...
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    obvious homage to Fort. In Blue Balliett's bestselling children's novel, Chasing Vermeer, Fort is given several mentions throughout the book, such as Fort's...
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  • It is the sequel to The Wright 3, which in turn is the sequel to Chasing Vermeer. Some underlying themes include the art of Alexander Calder, pentominoes...
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  • (crater), a crater on Mercury Calder Pillay, a major character in the Chasing Vermeer children's novel series by Blue Balliet East Calder, Mid Calder and...
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  • subjects into this one. Lo! is used extensively in Blue Balliett's book Chasing Vermeer. Fort establishes his thesis for this particular book early on—that...
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    comedy Mental. Hogan will direct an adaptation of Blue Balliett's book Chasing Vermeer. Hogan is married to film director Jocelyn Moorhouse. They have four...
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  • Dawn. Petra Andalee, the protagonist that appears in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3 Petra Johanna Lagerkvist, a character from the Arcana...
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    Maria Thins (c. 1593 – 27 December 1680) was the mother-in-law of Johannes Vermeer and a member of the Gouda Thins family. She was raised in a devout Dutch...
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    relationship to a painting of Vermeer. The young adult novel Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett centers on the fictional theft of Vermeer's A Lady Writing. J. P...
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  • Groot, is introduced. Cecelia Ahern – PS, I Love You Blue Balliett – Chasing Vermeer Iain M. Banks – The Algebraist Steven Barnes – The Cestus Deception...
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  • All the Vermeers in New York is a 1990 American film written and directed by Jon Jost. It won the Caligari Film Award in the 1991 Berlin International...
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  • Ballantyne (1825–1894) – The Coral Island Blue Balliett (born 1955) – Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929) – The Indian...
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  • Bayo Ojikutu 47th Street Black 2003 ISBN 0-7394-3326-1 Blue Balliett Chasing Vermeer 2004 Blue Balliett The Wright 3 2006 Bob Hartley Following Tommy ISBN 978-0983104186...
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    Mathematics, a middle school pre-algebra text. Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer, The Wright Three, and The Calder Game, based her children's mysteries...
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  • games between the original launch and 2004: Vermeer (1987), Vermeer: Die Kunst zu erben (1997), and Vermeer: The Great Art Race (2004). The name of the...
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    circle of suspects for the famous robbery of the Boston Gardner Museum. Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett In The Tenth Chamber by Glenn Cooper, a fictional...
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  • Maria de Knuijt (category Johannes Vermeer)
    was a patron of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. She provided support and financial assistance to Vermeer throughout his career. De Knuijt was married...
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  • Balliett, former 3rd grade teacher, author of acclaimed children's books Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3, among others. Barbara T. Bowman, early childhood...
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  • Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry Winner 2005 Blue Balliett Chasing Vermeer Winner 2006 D. James Smith The Boys of San Joaquin Winner 2007 Andrew...
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    Kathleen Karr The 7th Knot Marshall Cavendish Winner 2004 Blue Balliett Chasing Vermeer Scholastic Press Winner 2005 Peter Abrahams Down the Rabbit Hole HarperCollins...
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  • Burroughs Truth & Beauty: A Friendship Ann Patchett Children's Literature Chasing Vermeer Blue Balliett and Brett Helquist (Illus.) Winner Becoming Naomi Leon...
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    million from her father. One of her first acquisitions was The Concert by Vermeer (c. 1664), purchased at a Paris auction house in 1892. She also collected...
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