Lisle, Janet Taylor.

The art of keeping cool / Janet Taylor Lisle. - New York : Scholastic, 2001, c2000. - 207 p. ; 20 cm.

"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover.

In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. Soon after Robert arrives at his grandfather's home in Rhode Island in 1942, just after the U.S. enters World War II, he learns of a German painter living in the woods who raises the community's suspicions, and of the mystery his RAF pilot father left behind after fleeing his home.

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World War, 1939-1945--Rhode Island--Juvenile fiction.