From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
When suburban Cladia Kncaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to somewhere-to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, preferably, elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowng that her younger brother...
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When suburban Cladia Kncaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to somewhere-to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, preferably, elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowng that her younger brother Jamie has money and thus can help her with a serious cash-flow problem, she invites him along.
Once settled into the museum, Cladia and Jamie find themselves caught up in the mystery of an angel statue that the museum purchased at auction for a bargain price of $225. The statue is possibly an early work of the Renaissance master, Michelangelo, and therefore worth millions. Is it? Or isn't it? claudia is determined to find out. Her quest leads her to Mrs. Basil E. frandweiler, the remarkable old woman who sold the statur, and to some equally remarkable discoveries about herself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689853548 (0689853548)
Publish date: October 1st 2002
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages no: 182
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Mystery,
Kids,
New York
I love this book. I must have read it when I was a kid - I know I did - but beyond the museum, and the statue, I remembered almost nothing. Which was great, because I got to discover it all over again. It starts a tad slow, as Claudia meticulously plans her running away, but once they hit the mu...
Interesting framing devise that you forget about till you reach the end *grin* I found this one charming and interesting. And imagine every child with a minimum possibility of ever be able to reach the NY Museum would find it a million times more thrilling. There's is no magic more real, more so...
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her back. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore...
I didn't read this when I was a kid like all my friends seem to have done, but I don't think I necessarily would have liked it any better then than I did now. It was all a little too "cutesy" for my taste, and while the motives were fairly believable for children, it's still hard for the main charac...
As an adult reading this for the first time, I really had to shut off a good portion of my brain that concerns itself with 'plausibility' and 'child safety', etc. Once I did that I really had a jolly old time! On one level, the most important level really, this is fabulous escapist fiction for kids....
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