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The Calder game

by Blue Balliett

FictionLarge type booksMobiles (Sculpture)Missing personsMystery and detective storiesSculptureJuvenile fictionChildren's fiction

After 7th-grade friends Calder, Petra and Tommy go on a field trip to view Alexander Calder mobiles at a Chicago art museum, Calder accompanies his father on a business trip to a small village in England. A few days later, Calder and a donated Calder sculpture "The Minotaur" both disappear at the same time. Calder's father asks Petra and Tommy to fly to England to help find their friend.

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Book data: Open Library