Product Details
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, March 2009
Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1416953531
ISBN-13: 9781416953531
Grades: 4 - 8
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- Bank Street Best Books of the Year
- Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
Description
Discoveries
Amedeo Kaplan dreams of discovering something -- some treasure no one realizes is there until he finds it. And he would like to discover a true friend to share this with.
Improbably, he finds the friend in aloof, edgy William Wilcox. And even more improbably, he finds his treasure among the memorabilia in the house of his eccentric neighbor, Mrs. Zender. But Amedeo and William find more than treasure -- they find a story that links a sketch, a young boy's life, an old man's reminiscence, and a painful secret dating back to the outrages of Nazi Germany. And they discover unexpected truths about art, friendship, history, heroism, and the mysteries of the human heart.
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"Humorous, poignant, tragic, and mysterious...Konigsburg, a master of characterization, has created a cast of idiosyncratic people and skillfully embedded them in an appealing tale of friendship, loyalty, and mystery."
-- School Library Journal
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