{"product_id":"the-mona-lisa-vanishes-a-legendary-painter-a-shocking-heist-and-the-birth-of-a-global-celebrity","title":"The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The tale of a stunning art heist with a contagious love of stranger-than-fiction true stories!\"--Steve Sheinkin, Newbery Honor-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBomb\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe true story of how Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece became the most famous painting in the world after being stolen from the Louvre, written as a \"witty thriller\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIBERT MEDAL WINNER - BOSTON GLOBE--HORN BOOK AWARD WINNER - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBooklist, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, The New York Public Library, The Chicago Public Library, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, \u003ci\u003eLa Joconde, c'est partie\u003c\/i\u003e! The \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa, \u003c\/i\u003e she's gone!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTravel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves--and detectives--of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa, \u003c\/i\u003e through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. 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