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

E.L. Konigsburg

Why we're reading this: Set in New York City, with honorable mention to Greenwich, NY.
[close] Set in New York City, with honorable mention to Greenwich, NY.

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Sep 23, 2008 ellen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-before-2012, reviewed, fiction, audience-young-adult, favorites-ever, format-audiobook, setting-new-york-city, rereads, genre-mystery-and-thriller, read-2017

I downloaded the audiobook of this (thank god for Overdrive!) after discovering that it was E.L. Konigsburg's birthday... and because I needed something to listen to while going through a bunch of old files at work. Although (fortunately!) our central files at work are more traditionally organized than Mrs. Frankweiler's, the combination seemed too good to pass up.

The narration is good and the book holds up very well, although my love for the Met and the childhood nostalgia associated with the b ...more

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Jul 27, 2017 martha rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Forever fav, 500-time reread, foisted on every kid I know.

"I didn't run away to come home the same." - Claudia, soulmate ...more

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Mar 27, 2008 Rae rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya-childrens

Claudia and her brother Jamie run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to teach their parents a lesson. They hide in the museum until it closes and then the adventure really begins. Newbery winner, 1967.

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