The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day; Illustrated by Brett Helquist (Hardcover) KNOPF the bestselling and award-winning creator

the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past Is Red

Aaron Foley

Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators

In Lauren Groff’s Florida

Now she’s running from the one person she had wanted to run to

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day; Illustrated by Brett Helquist (Hardcover) KNOPF the bestselling and award-winning creatorA witty thriller (The New York Times) for middle grade readers about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the worldand how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. SIBERT MEDAL WINNER BOSTON GLOBEHORN BOOK AWARD WINNER ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, NPR, The New York Public Library,