FREE: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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The item you are bidding on is the book "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by Two-TIme Newberry Medal-Winning Author E.L. Konigsburg. The book is in like new condition, no page crimping, only flaw is a name written on the very first page.

Plot:
The story begins when Claudia Kincaid, an 11-year-old girl (1 month away from being 12) decides to run away from home because she thinks her parents don't appreciate her. Unfortunately, she doesn't like discomfort, so she runs away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She asks her younger brother Jamie to accompany her, partly because he's quiet, but most importantly, because he saves all of his money instead of spending it.

Much of the early part of the novel details how Claudia and Jamie settle in at the museum: blending in with school groups on field trips during the day to learn more about the museum's exhibits, hiding in the bathroom at closing time to avoid the staff checking to make sure that all the patrons have left the museum, bathing in the fountain, picking up "wishing coins", and sleeping on antique beds. During their stay, they become fascinated with the newest exhibit: a beautiful statue of an angel, suspected to have been crafted by Michelangelo. They research the statue, and discover that it was sold to the museum by a Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, who lives in Farmington, Connecticut. They spend the last of their dwindling money to travel to Mrs. Frankweiler's house, where they discover the angel's secret, hidden in the voluminous and erratically organized files in Mrs. Frankweiler's office. Afterward, she sends them home in her Rolls-Royce to their worried parents and siblings.

Claudia and Jamie then realize why they had gone on the crazy trip: because they wanted a secret of their own to treasure and keep.