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Feeling unappreciated and bored with life in the suburbs, twelve-year-old Claudia Kincaid decided it’s time for a change– she has decided to run away. However, she will not settle for less than a life-altering, yet comfortable, experience. That’s where her younger brother Jamie comes in. He’s the one who’s got the most sense about money, and they will need money where they are going. And where might that be? New York City, of course: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, to be exact. Find out precisely how Claudia and Jamie make themselves at home in the behemoth museum. Moreover, discover the solution to the mystery that they encounter while they pass the days (and nights) in the Met. The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg is a page-turner; it won the Newberry Award for Children’s Literature in 1968, and will remain in your heart long after you’ve read it.