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Bentonville, AR 72712
Mon-Thu
Fri-Sat
Sun
9am – 8pm
9am – 5pm
Closed
Read, think, and share ideas about great books! This month, we're talking about The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day. For children entering 4th - 6th grade.
The first 12 participants to register will receive a free copy of the book, generously purchased by the Friends of the Library. You must attend the book club meeting in order to keep the book.
Additional copies are available for checkout at BPL and on the Libby app.
Book Summary:
On a hot August Day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, "La Jaconde, c'est partie!" (The Mona Lisa, she's gone!).
No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?
Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: Turn of the century Paris. Walk its back streets, meet the infamous thieves and detectives of the era, and then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa- the most famous painting in the world that should never have existed at all!
Sibert Medal Winner. Best Books of the Year by School Library Journal, NPR, The New York Public Library, The Chicago Public Library.
Questions? Email Sarah Hanst, Children's Library Specialist - shanst@bentonvillear.com
Bentonville Public Library is a department of the City of Bentonville. Bentonville Public Library is located just 3 blocks south of the Downtown Square, at 405 S. Main Street in Bentonville, Arkansas. Facility amenities include adult collection, children's and teen spaces, private study rooms, event spaces, makerspace and digital lab, genealogy research center, sensory and wellness room, business centers, book club lounge, and café.
