Why did Leonardo da Vinci lavish three years on painting the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? In E. L. Konigsburg's intriguing novel, the answer lies with the complex relationship between the genius, his morally questionable young apprentice, and a young duchess whose plain features belie the sensitivity of her soul.
Talk, Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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Throwing Shadows
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Up from Jericho Tel
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Journey to an 800 Number
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Silent to the Bone
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
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The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper
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Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William Mckinley, And Me, Elizabeth
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My Father's Daughter
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