* "This lively and inventive mystery successfully incorporates history, art, and literary classics...readers will certainly be swept up by Martha's pluck and the mystery's many layers."--
Booklist, starred review
* "The combination of history, art, and mystery is sure to delight readers...Between the well-written story and the cross curricular possibilities, this is a book every library should have.--
School Library Connection, starred review
"A solid, fast-moving mystery for historical fiction fans, with nods to art history and mythology."--
School Library Journal "Offer this to fans of Blue Balliett who like sophisticated adventures."--
Publishers Weekly "Fitzgerald's interest in art and history inform this puzzle of a novel, with Jane Eyre, Sacco and Vanzetti, the dying art of vaudeville, chemistry, and the 1929 stock market crashes all playing roles."--
The Horn Book "Young teens will enjoy [Martha's] impertinence and determination, and may not even notice that they are learning a little bit about the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and the 1928 presidential election, as well as the stock market crash of 1929."--
VOYA "Martha is a scrappy, amiable narrator, and readers will be just as invested as she is in seeing that all the wrongs in this household are finally righted."--
BCCB Praise for Under the Egg
Under the Egg is the winner of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Best Middle Grade Book of the Year award!
"It's really a very compelling read and I don't know how she did it."--Kate DiCamillo on NPR
* "A riveting narrative."--
Booklist, starred review
* "Fans of Koningsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Balliett's Chasing Vermeer will thrill at the chance to solve a new mystery centered around art."--
Library Media Connection, starred review
"Laura Marx Fitzgerald creates the perfect adventure...any girl will love this book."--
Girls Life
"Uniquely readable, entirely charming, and a pleasure from start to finish. Debuts this good are meant to be discovered."
--School Library Journal Fuse 8 Blog
"Riveting from start to finish."
--BookPage