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From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Konigsburg, E. L.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Aladdin Books, 1986, c1967.
Edition:	1st Aladdin Books ed.
Subjects:	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction. Runaways > Juvenile fiction. Self-reliance > Juvenile fiction. Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction. New York (N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction. Museums > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	162 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Audience:	"Ages 9-12"--Cover p. [4].
Awards:	Newbery Award, 1968
ISBN:	9780545041737 0440431808 068985322x 0689711816 9781416949756
Author Notes:	Elaine Lobl Konigsburg, noted children's writer and illustrator, was born February 10, 1930 in New York City. She received a BS in chemistry from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1952. She did graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh. Her best-known titles included A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, The Second Mrs. Giaconda, Father's Arcane Daughter, and Throwing Shadows. She won the Newbery Honor in 1968 for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and the William Allen White Award in 1970. She won the Newbery Medal again in 1997 for The View from Saturday. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was adapted into a motion picture starring Ingrid Bergman in 1973 and later released as The Hideaways in 1974. It became a television film starring Lauren Bacall in 1995. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was adapted for television as Jennifer and Me for NBC-TV in 1973. She died on April 19, 2013 from complications of a stroke that she had suffered a week prior at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography)