The Art of Keeping Cool is a children's historical novel by Janet Taylor Lisle published in October 2000 by Anthem Books.

Her fascination with her father's service as a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force, the U.S. army occupation of her hometown during World War II, and the far-reaching cultural impact of the Nazi regime.

in 1942, making sense of his family is especially difficult for thirteen-year-old Robert, whose father has been deployed in Europe with the Royal Canadian Air Force for more than six months.

After Pearl Harbor, Robert and his family moved from their farm in Ohio to live with his father's parents in Rhode Island.

With the help of Elliot and an exiled German painter named Abel Hoffman, Robert uncovers with the dark history of his father's family.