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On a hot August day in Paris, a little over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted: The Mona Lisa, it's party! The Mona Lisa is gone!
Nobody knew who was behind the robbery. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was he an American millionaire hungry for art? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso who was preparing to remake the very art of painting?
Travel to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk through its streets. Meet the famous thieves and detectives of the time. Then go further back in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling and wonderfully strange life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa: the most famous painting in the world should never have existed.
This is middle-grade nonfiction, with black-and-white illustrations by Brett Helquist, written at the pace of a thriller, crisscrossed with stories of crime and celebrity, genius and beauty.
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