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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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Main Author:	Konigsburg, E. L.
Other Authors:	Miner, Jan (Narrator)
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	[New York] : Listening Library, p1995.
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. Children's audiobooks.
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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.
Item Description:	Listening Library: LB 005 CD (YA 541A). Compact disc.
Physical Description:	3 sound discs (3 hr., 39 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Awards:	Newbery Award, 1968
ISBN:	1400085020 :
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)