The art of secrets
When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
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- ISBN: 1616201959
- ISBN: 9781616201951
- Physical Description 258 pages
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin, 2014.
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The Art of Secrets
A Fire Destroys . . . A Treasure Appears . . . A Crime Unfolds . . . An Edgar Award Winner, Best YA Novel 2015 A Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best" 2014 A Booklist Editors' Choice, Books for Youth 2014 A Booklist Top Ten Crime Fiction for Youth 2014 When Saba Khan's apartment burns in a mysterious fire, possibly a hate crime, her Chicago high school rallies around her. Her family moves rent-free into a luxury apartment, Saba's Facebook page explodes, and she starts (secretly) dating a popular boy. Then a quirky piece of art donated to a school fund-raising effort for the Khans is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Saba's life turns upside down again. Should Saba's family have all that money? Or should it go to the students who found the art? Or to the school? And just what caused that fire? Greed, jealousy, and suspicion create an increasingly tangled web as students and teachers alike debate who should get the money and begin to point fingers and make accusations. The true story of the fire that sets events in motion and what happens afterward gradually comes together in an innovative narrative made up of journal entries, interviews, articles, letters, text messages, and other documents.