From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
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(Mass Market Paperback - 35th Anniversary Edition)
- Age Range: 8 to 12
- Pub. Date: October 2002
- 208pp
- Sales Rank: 1,235
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2002
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 208pp
- Sales Rank: 1,235
- Age Range: 8 to 12
- ISBN-13: 9780689853548
- ISBN: 0689853548
- Edition Number: 35
- Edition Description: 35th Anniversary Edition
Synopsis
Read by Jan Miner
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Twelve-year-old Claudia Kincaid is restlesses--she wants to do something different, such as running away from her comfortable suburban life in Connecticut for a while. But not just any place will do because Claudia likes her comforts. It needs to be a place with a bit of luxury and some good company. Ans she wants to be gone just long enough to teach her parents to appreciate her.
With careful planning, Claudia stages her own secret live-in at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, taking along her nine-year-old brother, not so much for company, but mostly because he is a miser and will have money. What happens to Claudia and Jamie, and the changes that come about in this sister-brother duo, prove greater than either had bargained for.
Annotation
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Publishers Weekly
For 35 years, even readers who have never traveled to New York City have visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, courtesy of Claudia Kincaid, heroine of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg. Winner of the 1968 Newbery Medal, this novel charts one girl's mission to run away from her straight-As life to somewhere beautiful-the Met. In the process, she becomes obsessed with uncovering the secrets of a breathtaking statue. A 35th-anniversary dust jacket and a new afterword by the author caps this adventure that has captivated readers for more than a quarter-century. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
More Reviews and RecommendationsBiography
Elaine Konigsburg made children's literature history when this book, only her second, won the Newbery Medal, and her first was runner up.
READER BIO:
Jan Miner is a talented and versatile actress--she has played an incredible range of roles, from the works of Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams.
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Interesting message but dated deliveryby Anonymous
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November 11, 2009: This is one of those books I bought hoping to interest my son in a Newbery-winner instead of another installment of "My Weird School." I've taken to prereading his books myself so I know what to expect and, unfortunately, this one was a disappointment. While the idea of the kids secretly spending their nights at the Metropolitan Museum is delicious and fascinating, the mystery the kids find there is simplistic by the standards of today's info-savvier children. And the adventure itself, while still a fun idea, feels more irresponsible than irrepressible. Somehow what the little girl who drives the adventure gets out of it in the end seems not worth our investment of time and empathy. Sorry to say I think this little book is not aging well.
it was funby Anonymous
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September 13, 2009: well the charcters are pretty nice and funny. Also it had a good plot.
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