![]() ![]() So, Theo heads off to the library to find out what the Latin inscription says. As hard as it is to believe it about her beloved grandfather, Theo can't help but wonder if he might have done the unthinkable.īut first things first. Grandpa Jack had once worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a security guard…in the European Paintings wing. As the egg painting rubs off, suddenly, under the egg, another painting appears - one of a Madonna and Child, with a Latin inscription at the bottom - and it looks like it could be a genuine work of art from the Italian Renaissance. Until the day some rubbing alcohol spills on her grandfather's painting of a suspended egg. ![]() And to top that off, a letter from Veterans Affairs arrived, stating that Jack Tenpenny's monthly VA benefits were now terminated. And the 200 year old Tenpenny house in Spinney Land in Manhattan is literally falling apart at the seams and although grandpa Jack's last words to Theo were that he had left her a treasure, and to "look under the egg," up til now she had only found $463.00 in the house. There's her mom, but mom is a bit unhinged and hasn't been there for Theo in years, staying in her room drinking expensive tea and working on theorems that will never be proven. After her artist grandfather is struck and killed by a car, loner Theo Tenpenny, 13, is now even more alone in the world. ![]()
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