A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburgs beloved classic and Newbery Medalwinning 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 herwell, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
- | Author: E.L. Konigsburg
- | Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- | Publication Date: April 01, 1998
- | Number of Pages: 168 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0689711816
- | ISBN-13: 9780689711817
