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E. L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: Literature Guide

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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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Authors	E. L. Konigsburg
Narrator	Jan Miner
Fiction Genre	Family & Relationships • Juvenile Fiction • Travel
Fiction Subgenre	• • • • • •
Awards	1968 Newbery Medal

Professional Reviews

Professional Reviews

<b><i>School Library Journal</i>:</b> "This novel has all [readers] hope for in a book: humor, suspense, intrigue, and their problems acknowledged seriously but not somberly."

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Book Editions

Hardcover - Reinforced Hardcover1967June 01, 1967Atheneum8.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.7 lbs.9780689205866

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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running way in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her back. She didn't like discomfort, even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes.

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