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\nBook Summary: \;
\nOn a hot August Day in Paris\, just over a century ago\, a desperate guard burst i nto the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted\, "La Jaconde\, c 'est partie!" (The Mona Lisa\, she's gone!).
\nNo one knew who was b ehind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hu ngry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter\, Pablo Picass o\, who was about to remake the very art of painting? \;
\nTrave l back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: Turn of the cen tury Paris. Walk its back streets\, meet the infamous thieves and detectiv es of the era\, and then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci\, painter of the Mona Lisa through his dazzling\, wondrously weird l ife. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa- the most famous pa inting in the world that should never have existed at all!
\nSibert Medal Winner. Best Books of the Year by School Library Journal\, NPR\, The New York Public Library\, The Chicago Public Library.
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