The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible and sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace.
Claudia and Jamie run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and become embroiled in the mystery that is the toast of the New York papers--the question of whether the statue just donated by the grouchy art collector Mrs. Frankweiler is a real Michelangelo.
The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible and sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace.
While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.
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.