Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away ... so she decided to run not from somewhere but to somewhere - somewhere large, warm, comfortable, and beautiful. And that was how Claudia and her brother, Jamie, ended up living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and right in the middle of a mystery that made headlines. Forty years, two motion pictures, and millions of devoted fans later, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs.
Basil E. Frankweiler remains a modern classic, a favorite of children and adults alike.
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away ... so she decided to run not from somewhere but to somewhere - somewhere large, warm, comfortable, and beautiful. And that was how Claudia and her brother, Jamie, ended up living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and right in the middle of a mystery that made headlines. Forty years, two motion pictures, and millions of devoted fans later, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs.
Basil E. Frankweiler remains a modern classic, a favorite of children and adults alike.