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.
Main Author: | Konigsburg, E. L. |
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Other Authors: | Clayburgh, Jill. |
Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
Language: | English |
Published: |
[New York, NY] :
Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio,
Â2009.
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Edition: | Unabridged. |
Subjects: |
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. |
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Item Description: |
Title from container. Compact discs. Duration: 3:45:00. |
Physical Description: |
3 audio discs (approximately 3 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
Audience: |
Ages 8 and up. |
Production Credits: |
Producer and director: Elisa Shokoff. |
ISBN: |
9780743597159 074359715X |
Author Notes: |
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) |