People were so proud to tell how their grandfather had met FDR, or how their aunt always hid this painting in her boudoir, or how they themselves haggled this rug down to a nickel. But I saw too how excited people were about the path the object had taken to their living rooms. Yes, there’s always that final moment where you see dollar signs in the owner’s eyes. LMF: I had an idea to write an art history mystery-with time travel! Fortunately an editor friend talked me out of the time travel, but gave me some middle-grade fiction to read for ideas.Īround this time I was watching Antiques Roadshow and thinking about what made it so compelling. JCB: Congratulations on your debut, Laura! How did you come up with the idea for UNDER THE EGG?
SPOILER ALERT: If you like to read your mysteries without any hints to what lies ahead, then bookmark this page and go read UNDER THE EGG right now, then come back to Laura’s interview when you’re done. To solve the mystery, she’ll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community, one serendipitous friendship at a time.Īmazon / IndieBound / Barnes and Noble / Books-a-Million / Powell’s With the help of some unusual new friends, Theo’s search for answers takes her all over Manhattan and introduces her to a side of the city-and her grandfather-that she never knew. But Theo’s late grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and if the painting is as valuable as she thinks it is, then her grandfather wasn’t who she thought he was. So, when Theo discovers a painting in the house that looks like a priceless masterpiece, she should be happy about it. Theo is responsible for tending the family’s two-hundred-year-old town house, caring for a flock of unwieldy chickens, and supporting her fragile mother, all on her grandfather’s legacy of $463. Only two people know about the masterpiece hidden in the Tenpenny home- and one of them is dead. Frankweiler, then UNDER THE EGG is the book for you. Today we’re talking with OneFourKidLit author Laura Marx Fitzgerald, whose middle grade mystery UNDER THE EGG releases today! If you are a fan of Chasing Vermeer or From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
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