From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1 day ago.

• Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away...so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped -- right into a mystery that made headlines!

Shelfari edited the summary of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 9 days ago.

• 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 "wishing coins","wishing coins", and sleep on antique beds. During their stay, they become fascinated with the newest exhibit: a beautiful statue of an angel, suspected to have been crafted by Michelangelo. They research the statue, and discover that it was sold to the museum by a Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, who lives in Farmington, Connecticut. They spend the last of their dwindling money to travel to Mrs. Frankweiler's house, where they discover the angel's secret, hidden in the voluminous and erratically organized files in Mrs. Frankweiler's office. There they find out that Michelangelo made the angel. Afterward, she sends them home in her Rolls-Royce to their worried parents and siblings.

  Claudia and Jamie then realize why they had gone on the crazy trip. It was because they wanted a secret of their own to treasure and keep.

  Source: wikipedia

Timothy Gray approved Holly J’s request to combine 34 books, including From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, 9 days ago.

Holly J submitted a request to combine 34 books, including From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, 9 days ago.

Timothy Gray approved Andrew Powell’s request to separate an edition from From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 13 days ago.

Andrew Powell edited the language of an edition of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 13 days ago.

Andrew Powell submitted a request to separate an edition from From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 13 days ago.

Andrew Powell edited the language of an edition of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 13 days ago.

Andrew Powell edited the language of an edition of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 13 days ago.

Andrew Powell edited the language of an edition of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 13 days ago.