What do you do if you're bored at school, and nobody appreciates you at home? Well, Claudia Kincaid decides the only answer is to run away. She plans very carefully to be gone just enough time to teach her parents a lesson in 'Claudia appreciation'. She decides to hide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and to take her brother Jamie along, because he's got more money than she does. While they're there, Claudia becomes intrigued by a statue that was recently sold to the museum. She believes that Michelangelo created it, but there is controversy around it, and the only person who knows the truth is Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the person who sold it to the museum. Claudia and Jamie talk to Mrs. Frankweiler, an eccentric old woman, who decides to make a deal with Claudia and Jamie. This won the Newbery Medal in 1968.
Date read: 4/12/2009
ISBN-10: 0689205864
ISBN-13: 9780689205866
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