num_pages: 172
description: 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 her-well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
language: English
title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
titlecomplete: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
characters: Claudia Kincaid, Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, James Kincaid
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, School, Adventure, Fiction, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 207717
places: New York City, New York, Manhattan, New York City, New York, Connecticut, Metropolitan Museum of Art
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 28800000
name: William Allen White Children's Book Award
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers