From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg

Dec 2010 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

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Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal­–winning 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 her—well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.

Ratings and reviews

Mixed up files is a best book for a forth grader perfect words and text. The book well for me last up to 10 years well that was my max but yours could be way bigger! Mixed up Files is not as well challenging for fully mature humans but for 4th and 5th graders it could be a great challenge if they love to read. It's a great book it keeps you on the end of your toes oh most like as you were standing on a tip of a cliff and if you have not of known what have happened next you would have fallen. All then maybe in the beginning hard under standing and need parental help with the book under standing it right just in case your child or if you are a child it's so you don't pick up the wrong thing. Really Mixed up Files is a great book indeed when you start reading further you under stand the text more. Once again it's a great challenge and i'm sure 4th and 5th graders would love it. This is just how i predict kids would react to the book but kids have there own mind some would like this book and some would not but we all are different and have our own taste in books so I just hope you enjoy this well thought out review and check this book out if you would like not my choice. Bye!!!

Read this book in the 4th grade, watched the movies after completion, as a class. One of the most memorable books and films from my childhood. It made me want to go visit the metropolitan museum, which i did when i was older. The best story ever!!!!!

I remember reading this in fifth grade and loving it. It's actually held up rather well! Fast read and a great adventure.

About the author

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books are Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, and The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.