Walls Within Walls
Walls Within Walls is a young adult mystery and fiction book written by Maureen Sherry that was published by Harper Collins on September 14, 2010
Plot
Twelve-year-old CJ, his nine-year-old sister Brid, and six-year-old Patrick Smithfork resent leaving Brooklyn for Manhattan, even though they are pleased that their dad's video-game company has struck it rich. Finding a wall, a painting, and a book behind a grille in their historical Fifth Avenue apartment, the children start to decipher clues that send them on an architectural treasure hunt. Their neighbor Eloise Post hopes that the hunt will reveal the whereabouts of her father's lost fortune from the 1930s. The man left a book of poems by Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others that lead to seven famous structures around the city. The code is uncovered and the treasure is found in a water tower on top of their building. Eloise's lost brother was sent out to live in the country after the Lindbergh Kidnapping.
Similarities
Walls Within Walls is similar to Blue Balliet's Chasing Vermeer plotwise