# Artifice

**Author:** Sharon Cameron
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Page count:** 339
**Genre:** Young Adult Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781338813982`
**ISBN-10:** `1338813986`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/artifice
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of World War II, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places. Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city's palette. The "degenerate" art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists in hiding or deported, her best friend, Truus, fled to join the shadowy Dutch resistance. And masterpiece by masterpiece, the Nazis are buying and stealing her country's heritage, feeding the Third Reich's ravenous appetite for culture and art. So when the unpaid taxes threaten her beloved but empty gallery, Isa decides to ma

## Where this book is assigned

### South Carolina Young Adult Book Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)

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