From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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.

Author: E. L. Konigsburg
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 11/01/1970
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.61w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780689205866
Language: English