From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a novel by E. L. Konigsburg that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1968.
This story is about Claudia Kincaid, an 11-year-old girl (one month away from being 12) who doesn't feel loved by her parents. She decides to run away from home. Unfortunately, she doesn't like discomfort. To solve this problem, Claudia decides to go live at the Metropolitan Museu...
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a novel by E. L. Konigsburg that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1968.
This story is about Claudia Kincaid, an 11-year-old girl (one month away from being 12) who doesn't feel loved by her parents. She decides to run away from home. Unfortunately, she doesn't like discomfort. To solve this problem, Claudia decides to go live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She askes her younger brother Jamie to accompany her. He's quiet, but most importantly, he has cash which he's accumulated by betting on and cheating at card games with his best friend, Bruce Lansing.
Much of the early part of the novel details how Claudia and Jamie settle in at the museum: blending in with school groups on field trips during the day to learn more about the museum's exhibits, hiding in the bathroom at closing time, and emerging after the staff has gone. At night they bathe in the fountain, pick up ...
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