Tween Book Club

Join our Tween Book Club, a low-stakes, self-paced book club for Grades 4-7! Our June book club pick is From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg. Copies of the book and discussion packets are available for pickup at the Adams Street Library or check out Libby for the e-book and audiobook versions.

From the publisher:

Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and 1968 Newbery Medal­–winning novel.

When suburban nearly 12-year-old Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere she wants to run to somewhere—to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and preferably elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing that her younger brother, Jamie, has money and thus can help her with the serious cash flow problem she invites him along. 

Once settled into the museum, Claudia and Jamie, find themselves caught up in the mystery of an angel statue that the museum purchased at an auction for a bargain price of $250. The statue is possibly an early work of the Renaissance master Michelangelo, and therefore worth millions. Is it? Or isn't it? Claudia is determined to find out. This quest leads Claudia to Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the remarkable old woman who sold the statue and to some equally remarkable discoveries about herself.