The Calder Game

By: Blue Balliett

Narrated by: Deirdre Lovejoy

When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery- including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while others in the village have less-than-friendly feelings toward it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place...and then they dissapear!!!!

Calder's friends Petra and Tommy must fly to England to help Calder's father find him. But this mystery has more twists and turns than a calder mobile caught in a fierce wind-with more at stake that meets the eye.©2008 Blue Balliett; (P)2008 Random House, Inc.

The Calder game

Very good book helped me so much loved different voices.😀😀😀😀. One of the best books I've ever read.

Amazing book

This book is amazing no doubt.I love the detail.the feeling that it gives you when you read it is absolutely incredible

This is how I feel when I read it:💞😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄👍😄💞

These are some of my reasons that I gave it such a high rating.💗

Amazing book

This book is an Amazing addition to the Blue Baliet series. This book shows amazing character development. It’s main characters Calder, Petra, and Tommy grow in each book especially this one with Tommy and Petra’s bond as friends growing.

Bit of a Let Down

The previous 2 books in this series were excellent, opening up the world of art in an intriguing and engaging way. This third book began with promise, honest in the strain of relationships between the kids and the changes in moving to the next grade, and quickly introducing the mobiles of Alexander Calder. Throughout the book Ms. Balliett works in English history, teaching as well as entertaining. However, there are a few changes of heart that aren't explained, and some changes of heart that should happen, but don't. Calder Pilay is made to feel so ashamed to be an American it practically ruins his trip with his father. Even at the end, the Anti-American opinion is merely ignored by the bigots who expressed it, although some of the heroes, the art collector, and certainly the injured are Americans. Ms Balliett does an excellent job in presenting art and art history, but would be well advised to think before insulting many of the people who buy her books and thereby provide her an income.