You will discover the towns founding father Warren Featherstone and his massive buggy whip factory… the post office, pharmacy and of course Warren’s massive mansion, with its brass polished doorknobs and wall-to-wall imported Italian marble. The book is about a mystery concerning a rare stolen notebook written by Charles Darwin. Her latest book, “The Danger Box” takes the reader to “Three Oaks” -a small Michigan town in the Southwest corner of the state near Lake Michigan. Her books are like antique curiosity cabinets, with clever mind-twisting games and codes sprinkled throughout.
you’re always learning something new and interesting when you read Blue Balliett. She often describes in true-to-life detail places that actually exist… and adults love to read her books too. She creates fascinating mysteries and adventure stories for YA readers that are based on historical figures (the artists Vermeer, Calder and architect Frank Lloyd Wright all had roles in her past books. During her tenure, she coordinated with NASA astronaut and University of Chicago alumnus John Grunsfeld (S.M., ’84, Ph.D., ’88) to send her pupil's literature and creative artwork into space during a routine Hubble space telescope mission on the Columbia space shuttle.Blue Balliett is one of our favorite writers. Balliett has also published two books of Nantucket ghost stories.īefore releasing Chasing Vermeer, she taught third grade at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Her latest book, Hold Fast, was published in 2013. The Danger Box was published in August 2010. The book was a bestseller and won a number of accolades and awards, including the 2005 Edgar Award in the Best Juvenile category.Ī sequel, The Wright 3, was released in April, 2006, and a third, The Calder Game, was published two years later, in April 2008. Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Blue is an American author, best known for her award-winning novel for children, Chasing Vermeer.Ĭhasing Vermeer, released by Scholastic Press in 2004, is her best-known and most highly praised book. On her birth certificate it says Elizabeth. Blue Balliett was born in 1955 in New York.
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