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Edgar Award Finalist
For fans of The Westing Game and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes a clever, treasure-hunt mystery based on a real-life art heist.
Moxie Fleece knows the rules and follows them--that is, until the day she opens her front door to a mysterious stranger. Suddenly Moxie is involved in Boston's biggest unsolved mystery: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist. Moxie has two weeks to find the art, otherwise she and the people she loves will be in big-time danger.
Her tools? Her best friend, Ollie, a geocaching addict who loves to find stuff; her Alzheimer's suffering grandfather, Grumps, who knows lots more than he lets on; and a geometry proof that she sets up to sort out the clues.
It's a race against the clock through downtown Boston as Moxie and Ollie break every rule she's ever lived by to find the art and save her family. SEQUEL: Ollie and the Science of Treasure Hunting (2014).
About the Author
Erin Dionne's latest book for tweens is Secrets of a Fangirl (2019) . She's the author of 6 other books for young readers, including the 2014 Edgar Award finalist Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking (Dial 2013) . Her first picture book, Captain's Log: Snowbound, released in 2018 from Charlesbridge Publishers, and her most recent picture book is Balletball (Charlesbridge, 2020) . She teaches at Montserrat College of Art and lives outside of Boston with her husband, two children, and a very indignant dog.
