2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved classic
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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 11/01/1970
ISBN: 9780689205866
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.61w x 0.77d
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 11/14/2014 pg. 111
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 29 / From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Reading Level: 4.7 /
Interest Level: Middle Grade /
Point Value: 5