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

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘
Genre - Children's Mystery, Detective, & Spy, Children's Classics, Children's Art Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Length - 168 pages

*Amazon Blurb*

When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money.

Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too.

The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her-well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.

*My Review* 

My 5 year old choose this book as her "blind date with a book" even though we tried to tell her that it was a book for an older kid. She insisted and so we started it. I think she listened to the first 2 chapters and then lost interest. Since I had started, I couldn't simply stop reading.
It turned out to be a pretty cute book. Claudia and her brother Jamie run away together. I was curious how they would make it in New York City, but Claudia was quite the planner and thinker when it came to all that.