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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
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Description for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Paperback. The million-selling, award-winning classic novel - finally available again in the UK! Illustrator(s): Konigsburg, E.L. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 152 x 202 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
New York City girl Claudia, a mere month shy of being a twelve-year-old, has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. She knows that she could never pull off the classic spur-of-the-moment departure without a destination (inevitably involving having to eat outside with the insects, and cupcakes melting in the sun); so she plans everything to perfection, including their destination: the grand, elegant, beautiful, all-encompassing Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, no sooner have Claudia and Jamie settled into their new home, than they are caught up in the mystery of an angel statue bought by ... Read more
New York City girl Claudia, a mere month shy of being a twelve-year-old, has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. She knows that she could never pull off the classic spur-of-the-moment departure without a destination (inevitably involving having to eat outside with the insects, and cupcakes melting in the sun); so she plans everything to perfection, including their destination: the grand, elegant, beautiful, all-encompassing Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, no sooner have Claudia and Jamie settled into their new home, than they are caught up in the mystery of an angel statue bought by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pushkin Children´s Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782690719
SKU
V9781782690719
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-38
About E.L. Konigsburg
The writer and illustrator E. L. Konigsburg (1930-2013) is one of the most celebrated writers of books for children and young adults. She is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor in the same year - a feat she achieved in 1968, for The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, ... Read more
Reviews for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Mischievous and metropolitan... A wild rumpus... Japes abound New Yorker One of the finest storytellers of her era and genre... [From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler] is a story of discovery and self-discovery Washington Post E. L. Konigsburg is one of our brainiest writers for young people, not only in the considerable cerebral powers she brings to ... Read more