# The Mona Lisa Vanishes

**Author:** Nicholas Day
**Grade range:** Grades 4–10
**First published:** 2025
**Page count:** 289
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780593904213`
**ISBN-10:** `0593904214`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-mona-lisa-vanishes-a-legendary-painter-a-shocking-heist-and-the-birth-of-a-g
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

“The tale of a stunning art heist with a contagious love of stranger-than-fiction true stories!”—Steve Sheinkin, Newbery Honor–winning author of Bomb The true story of how Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece became the most famous painting in the world after being stolen from the Louvre, written as a “witty thriller” (The New York Times) and featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout. SIBERT MEDAL WINNER • BOSTON GLOBE—HORN BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, NPR, The New York Public Library, The Chicago Public Library, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shout

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