The Calder Game

Locations
Call Number: Y Fiction / Balliett, Blue, Kids Book / Fiction / Mystery / Balliett, Blue
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Balliett, Blue	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Balliett, Blue	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Balliett, Blue	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / Mystery / Balliett, Blue	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Mobiles, Mazes & Minotaurs submitted by Eris on June 22, 2011, 10:09am Blue Balliett is back in form with her second sequel to the award-winning Chasing Vermeer! This time, the adventure begins when our trio of intrepid Chicago teens visit an exhibit of mobiles by Alexander Calder. Tommy, Petra, and Calder are each inspired by the art in different ways, and begin to play the "calder game" set up by the museum. Then Calder's father is invited to work on a famous garden in a small town in England with its own Calder sculpture. The garden features a maze, and the statue is fittlingly titled "Minotaur." On the same night, both Calder and the Calder sculpture disappear, leaving Tommy and Petra to collaborate to find them. An amazing book full of suprises and coincidences, I recommend giving it a shot even if normal mysteries aren't to your taste-- this is far from your average whodunnit!
"Nobody ever listened to me
until they didn't know who I was." ~Banksy

Calder Game submitted by honordenver on June 27, 2011, 5:53pm This book is not as good as the other two books but it is still good. In this book it's about saving Calder and the two kids who didn't really like Calder{Tommy and Petra} and always had him put in the middle now must come together and solve the mystery of Calder and play The Calder Game.

Calder Game submitted by John Staunton on July 17, 2018, 3:42pm Good ending to the series . But with Calder missing you realize how much his perspective drives the other two books. This one is more plot-driven, and the questions about art that figure centrally in the other two are muted a bit here.