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E.L. Konigsburg
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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FROM SARAH:
Did you read this one as a kid? Your kids will still love it just as much (and if you haven't read it yet, you're in for a treat!). When Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she and her brother end up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, only to get caught up in a mystery that makes headlines.
FROM THE PUBLISHERS:
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.
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
FROM SARAH:
his book has received a lot of love from readers! I have yet to read it, but it comes highly recommended by some RAR team members and is on my TBR. It's an unusual take on Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife to two kings, mother to two others, who has been waiting in Heaven a long time (eight centuries) —to be reunited with her second husband, Henry II of England. Beautiful Feet Books recommends it for homeschoolers in grades 10-12.
Recommended for ages 13+.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife to two kings, mother to two others, has been waiting in Heaven a long time -- eight centuries, more or less -- to be reunited with her second husband, Henry II of England. Finally, the day has come when Henry will be judged for admission. While Eleanor, never a patient woman in life or afterlife, waits, three people, each of whom was close to Eleanor during a time of her life, join her. Their reminiscences do far more than help distract Eleanor -- they also paint a rich portrait of an extraordinary woman who was front and center in a remarkable period in history and whose accomplishments have had an important influence on society through the ages.
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