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By the time i was a teenager, i sometimes stopped at the metropolitan museum of art or the frick museum after school, just to wander and look and think. Set in hyde park, chicago near the university of chicago, the novel follows two children, calder pillay and petra andalee. Blue balliett was born and raised in new york city and loved to stop at the metropolitan museum of art or the frick museum on her way home from school. Can they decipher a crime that has left even the fbi baffled.
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