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.
Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (35th Anniversary Edition) (Hardcover)
Author: Konigsburg, E.L.
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date Published: Hardcover – Special Edition, 1 Oct. 2002
Category: Tweens Fiction
Subject: Contemporary
Binding: Hardcover
Reading Age: 8 - 12 years
No. Of Pages: 176 pages
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0689853227
Amazon Price: £14.11