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  • fun to re-read as an adult... i felt like i was getting drawn into a kid's world.

    

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• ― cait4328 said on Apr 21, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I had never read this prior to this year. A truly awesome book. I was so enamored with the book, I quoted from it frequently (some even on my blog).

    It turns out I had multiple copies of this book I did not know of.

    

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• ― Batona said on Mar 23, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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

The two took up  residence in 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 had discovered its maker, a question that  baffled even the experts. The former owner of the  statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. And without her  help Claudia might never have found a way to go  home.

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