{"product_id":"the-second-mrs-gioconda-9781416903420","title":"The Second Mrs. Gioconda","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE GREATEST ARTIST OF HIS TIME\u003cbr\u003e AN APPRENTICE WITH A LARCENOUS HEART AND AN AVERSION TO THE TRUTH\u003cbr\u003e A YOUNG DUTCHESS WHOSE PLAIN FACE BELIES HER BEAUTIFUL SOUL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Could the complex ways these three lives intertwine hold the key to a historical riddle as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's smile -- why Leonardo da Vinci devoted three years to a painting of the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? \u003cbr\u003e Only a master storyteller like two-time Newberry Medal-winner E.L. Konigsburg could create such an intriguing answer to the puzzle behind the most famous painting of all time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKonigsburg, E. L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, \u003ci\u003eFrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler\u003c\/i\u003e won the Newbery Medal and \u003ci\u003eJennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth\u003c\/i\u003e was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for \u003ci\u003eThe View from Saturday\u003c\/i\u003e. Among her other acclaimed books are \u003ci\u003eSilent to the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Atheneum Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50415120744722,"sku":"9781416903420","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1386b88c-d48b-497b-b4b7-c4524168f367.jpg?v=1729394431","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-second-mrs-gioconda-9781416903420","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}