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.
"Meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds help track down a missing book of Arthurian legends that may hold the key to preventing a second attack on American soil."--OCLC.
the object in American art, 1915-1995 : selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
1996
Examines the evolution of still life from 1915 to 1995 through sixty-six paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and an essay that surveys the genre from the seventeenth-century through the 1990s.
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.
