A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall

Name: A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jasmine Warga
ISBN: 9780063395220

Author: Jasmine Warga

Narrator: Michael Crouch

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Storytide

Published: 09/10/2024

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Children's Art Stories, Ghost Stories

Synopsis

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Home comes an extraordinary story about two friends, a ghost, a missing painting, and a turtle named Agatha. The perfect next read for fans of The Swifts, Kate DiCamillo, and Erin Entrada Kelly. A painting has been stolen…!When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes: She looks just like the girl in the painting that has gone missing. But how does her appearance connect to the theft?Agatha the turtle knows—she has been watching from the garden. But she can’t exactly tell anyone…can she?Will Rami, with the help of his classmate, Veda, be able to solve the mystery? The clues are all around them, but they’ll have to be brave enough to really look.This is a whimsical, moving story about the universal desire to be seen and understood and how art can help us find connection, even when we are at our loneliest.

About Jasmine Warga

Jasmine Warga is the New York Times bestselling author of Other Words for Home, a Newbery Honor Book and a Walter Honor Book for Younger Readers; The Shape of Thunder; and A Rover’s Story. Her teen books, Here We Are Now and My Heart and Other Black Holes, have been translated into over twenty-five languages. She lives in the Chicago area with her family. You can visit Jasmine online at jasminewarga.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by abigailscupoftea on April 09, 2025

this was such a charming & unique middle grade mystery! i was smiling from ear to ear as the story wrapped up. and i have to say, agatha stole the show— she was such an observant & gifted little turtle. absolutely precious! read this if you love animals, art museums, and a little touch of the supern......more

Goodreads review by Lizzy on May 30, 2024

i’ll read anything Jasmine writes and you should too......more

Goodreads review by Katie on July 09, 2024

I think I may have found my first read aloud with my 4th graders students in the fall! Grateful to have the chance to read and review this advanced reader’s copy of Jasmine Warga’s newest, A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall. Rami is a lonely 6th grader. His two close friends have suddenly ditch......more

Goodreads review by Josiah on February 05, 2025

No one at the Penelope L. Brooks Museum witnesses the art theft that sets A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall into motion. No one, that is, except a turtle named Agatha, who plays a larger role in what comes next than one might think possible. Eleven-year-old Rami Ahmed is having a tough year. A......more

Goodreads review by Shari on June 17, 2024

Absolutely loved this poignant mystery in which a missing painting brings friends together. 6th grade has been hard for Rami, and he has lost his confidence, feeling invisible. When a painting goes missing in the art gallery where his mom works, and a mysterious girl appears only to Rami, he is intr......more