From the Mixed up Files: Week 2

Summary, Renaissance art, Vocab words, Discussion Q's

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This week we are reading pages 40-80

Summary

We last left the Kincaid team in an ancient bed, hungry, and uncomfortable. But also a little closer and no less resolved to their plan. Over a few pages, even the most ridgid Claudia is now eating “non-breakfast” foods in the morning and it seems like ages and ages ago they were on a bus headed to school. Technically that was less than a day ago, but clearly we are so immersed in the present, in the “here and now” that anything before feels completely faraway.

Deciding to spend their time learning about new things, (they are in a museum are they not?) the pair gets swept along in a crowd where they see a statue that leaves a great impression on Claudia. One stolen newspaper later and the siblings learn that this statue was newly purchased by the museum for a mere $225, but there is some talk in could be a real Michelangelo valued at millions of dollars. Claudia and Jaime become captured by the mystery and decide to devote their time to solving it. We get the feeling already that this quest of theirs is the beginning of something bigger and the rest of the story will follow this search. What they will find we don’t know. Will someone find them?

Who is Michelangelo?