02019cam a2200349 4500 330880728 TxAuBib 20170101120000.0 060929t20021967||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780881037319 hc. 0881037311 hc. (OCoLC)71799961 TxAuBib Konigsburg, E.L. From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / written and illustrated by E.L. Konigsburg. 1st Aladdin Books ed. New York : Aladdin Books, 2002. ©1967. 162 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. 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! Annotation. When Claudia and Jamie plan to run away from home, they decide that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would be a very comfortable place to live. So they settle in and soon find themselves in the middle of a controversy over the authenticity of a new statue. "Ages 9-12"--Cover p. [4]. 20170101. Newbery Award, 1968. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y) Juvenile fiction. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Runaways Fiction. Self-reliance Fiction. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Museums Fiction. New York (N.Y) History 20th century Fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon032/86025903.html Publisher description