From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / Konigsburg, E. L

Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.

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. subjects:Museums, History, Fiction, 20th Century, Chinese Language, Artists, Mystery Fiction,Runaways-brother and Sister-juvenile Fiction, Newbery Medal Winner 1968.