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Daring Heists

Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers

by Tom McCarthy
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If you visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, you might be surprised to see frames without any paintings in them. This isn't a mistake—museum officials hope to someday return the artwork that was stolen from the museum to these frames. In the early morning hours after St. Patrick's Day in 1990, a guard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum was tricked into allowing a pair of thieves disguised as police officers to enter the building. The thieves used duct tape to secure the two guards on duty in the basement while they stole 13 pieces of art. The art, and the thieves, have never been recovered.
The famous tale of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist, the first of five stories in Daring Heists: Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers, introduces readers to the mystery and suspense of interesting crimes. Other topics discussed in the book include the stories of famous robbers D.B. Cooper and Marm Mandelbaum, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and the Christmas Eve art theft at the Mexico City Museum in 1985.
Daring Heists is the third book in a new series called Mystery & Mayhem, which features true tales that whet kids' appetites for history by engaging them in genres with proven track records—mystery and adventure. History is made of near misses, unexplained disappearances, unsolved mysteries, and bizarre events that are almost too weird to be true—almost! The Mystery & Mayhem series delves into these tidbits of history to provide kids with a jumping off point into a lifelong habit of appreciating history.
Each of the five true tales told within Daring Heists is paired with a map, as well as fun facts about the setting, industry, and time period. A glossary and resources page provide the opportunity to practice using essential academic tools. These nonfiction narratives use clear, concise language with compelling plots that both avid and reluctant readers will be drawn to.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Mystery and Mayhem

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 22, 2017

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781619305335
      • File size: 1566 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781619305335
      • File size: 1566 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 930
    • Text Difficulty: 4-6

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      August 1, 2017

      Gr 4-7-These additions to the series appeal to its target audience by focusing on cases that have puzzled law enforcement and the public over the 20th century. Is money worth your life? It is possible the criminal masterminds profiled in Daring Heists thought so, as they all ended up in jail or on the run. Even the unsolved and notorious art theft from the Gardner Museum has left its main suspect jailed and the loot unrecovered. These are crimes that will have readers wanting to find out more about the perpetrators. In Weird Disappearances, McCarthy looks at a series of unresolved cases regarding missing people, including Amelia Earhart, Anastasia Romanov, and Solomon Northrup. Both titles present stories in a quick-flowing style with omniscient third-person narration as a means of appealing to reluctant readers. The titles would benefit from endnotes to help students further research people or events, especially those where McCarthy has postulated a conclusion. Each chapter is supplemented with a map and a sampling of facts about the time. VERDICT A supplemental choice where high-interest, true crime books are in demand.-Betsy Fraser, Calgary Public Library, Canada

      Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      June 1, 2017
      Adventure is at the forefront of the Mystery & Mayhem series, which visitsand occasionally sensationalizesexciting true tales. Each volume contains five long-form stories that briefly touch on the event or person featured while also acknowledging other historical happenings of the period. Daring Heists contains stories of robberies on several scales, including the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and the amateur heist of the Mexico City Museum on Christmas Eve of 1985. Some names, such as D. B. Cooper, the epithet for the man who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971, will likely be familiar to some readers; others, such as nineteenth-century New York's infamous crime-queen Marm Mandelbaum, may be new. Each chapter is followed by a What Else Was Happening? section that concisely contextualizes each event. The text is, for the most part, straightforward, only occasionally delving into dramatization, while the layout tends toward blandnessaside from a black-and-white map and time line at the start of each chapter, there are few illustrations. The true stories themselves, though, are thrilling enough to keep older readers engaged, and will likely spur further exploration.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:930
  • Text Difficulty:4-6

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