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

Description:

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.

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction,  Runaways,  Self-reliance,  Brothers and sisters,  History,  Museums,  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),  Children: Grades 2-3,  Newbery Medal,  Runaway children,  Newbery medal books, 1968,  Art museums,  Mystery and detective stories,  Children's fiction,  Runaways, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Brothers and sisters, fiction,  Metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.), fiction,  Children's stories,  Women, fiction,  Adventure and adventurers, fiction,  Museums, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Self-reliance, fiction,  New york (n.y.), history, fiction,  Siblings, fiction,  award:Newbery_award,  lexile:700,  lexile_range:701-800,  age:min:8,  age:max:11,  grade:min:3,  grade:max:7,  Musicians,  Biography

Places: New York (N.Y.)

Times: 20th century