Meanwhile, Petra has a vision of a lady in an antiquated dress with pearl earrings. Sharpe and notices she has a copy of the picture from his Geography box, The Geographer by Johannes Vermeer. Petra chooses Lo! by Charles Fort, a strange book in which Fort posits that life is not a series of coincidences but is an interconnecting web of patterns.Ĭalder and Petra learn that Lo! used to belong to Mrs. Calder chooses a Geographer’s box with a painting on it. Hussey’s next assignment requires the children to present their interpretation of art. Calder is obsessed with pentominoes that he keeps in his pocket and uses to send and receive coded messages, while Petra is an adventurer. One day after school, Calder follows Petra to Powell’s Bookstore, and the pair run into each other, beginning their unusual friendship. Isabel Hussey, gives several assignments related to unique letters and letters found in works of art. In the days that follow, Petra and Calder’s teacher, Ms. The letters ask for the recipients’ help in solving a centuries-old art mystery. The story begins with three residents of Hyde Park receiving anonymous letters. The story takes place in contemporary Hyde park on Chicago’s south side, spanning three months. The novel’s third-person narrative follows Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay, two gifted sixth-grade students at the University of Chicago’s innovative Laboratory School, as they recover a stolen painting using hidden patterns.
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