One title from Booklist's 2009 top ten list of crime fiction for youth, as complied by Ian Chipman: Masterpiece. By Elise Broach. Illus. by Kelly Murphy. 2008. Holt, $16.95 (9780805082708). Gr. 3–6.Read about all ten titles.
The involving world of art history and the miniature world of arthropods meet in this story of two fast friends, a boy and a beetle, who get caught up in a plot to heist a Dürer masterpiece from the Metropolitan Museum.
--Marshal Zeringue
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