Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: NOT RECOMMENDED
AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW
When 12yo Cat and her friends see Raphael’s Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn, not she, but everyone around her see how strongly Cat resembles the girl in the painting. When her school announces participation in a Renaissance history and art project (Rhap) contest, Cat sees this as her chance to delve into family and world history to see if she somehow related to this unknown lady. And maybe she can accomplish two things - beat Annaka, who seems to win everything, and be admitted into the honors history class.
Add an improbably last minute trip to Italy for hands on research and a deux ex machina letter that arrives just minutes before the contest judging.
If the cover doesn’t turn off students, the average writing will. The tortured Rhap acronym and the pun-ish title are eyerollers rather than funny. I didn’t read the first book in the series, so I was confused about the series name (Ellie and Co.), when Ellie is a rare character on page.
Cindy Mitchell, Library Teacher, MLS
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