The Calder game

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Blue Balliett: The Calder game (2008, Thorndike Press)

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2008 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-1-4104-1017-7
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When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.

2 editions

Review of 'Calder Game' on 'Goodreads'

actually 3+

Honestly, I don't remember much of the second installment; but, I remember not liking it as much as the first. I think this, the third, is slightly better again, though I wondered most of the way through when I would have liked to read this—maybe at age 6? So, it mightn't appeal to precocious readers. Given that it's targeted to middle-graders, there's nothing exceedingly sinister in the content.

As another reviewer has noted, the series probably appeals more to Hyde Parkers more than most, though this installment is set in England.

Review of 'Calder Game' on 'Goodreads'

actually 3+

Honestly, I don't remember much of the second installment; but, I remember not liking it as much as the first. I think this, the third, is slightly better again, though I wondered most of the way through when I would have liked to read this—maybe at age 6? So, it mightn't appeal to precocious readers. Given that it's targeted to middle-graders, there's nothing exceedingly sinister in the content.

As another reviewer has noted, the series probably appeals more to Hyde Parkers more than most, though this installment is set in England.

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Subjects

  • Calder, Alexander, -- 1898-1976 -- Fiction
  • Large type books
  • Mobiles (Sculpture) -- Fiction
  • Sculpture -- Fiction
  • Missing persons -- Fiction
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • Large type books
  • England -- Fiction