From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- ISBN-10
- 1442431261
- ISBN-13
- 9781442431263
- Series
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-12-21
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- E.L. Konigsburg
Description
Now available in a deluxe keepsake edition! A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too. The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her—well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
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- 2007-09-25
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