Parent/Kid book group is a monthly book cl ub for kids\, ages 7-16\, and their grownups. All adults must be accompani ed by a child. Themed snacks provided. \;Register here\, then pick up a copy of the book from the library front desk. See the l ist of upcoming books at https://library.bcutah.gov/pk.
\nOn 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\, La Joconde\, c&rsquo\;est partie ! \;The Mona Lisa\, she&rsq uo\;s gone!
\nNo one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an intern ational gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso\, who was about to remake the ver y art of painting?
\nTravel back to an extraordinary period of revol utionary turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamou s thieves&mdash\;and detectives&mdash\;of the era. And then slip back furt her in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci\, painter of the Mona Lisa\, thro ugh his dazzling\, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa &mdash\;the most famous painting in the world should nev er have existed at all.
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