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Summary: The best adventure book!
Review: This was a great book and had lots of adventure in it. My favorite part was when Claudie and Jamie were in the museum and hiding from the guards because it was very funny when they hid in the toilets. Another good part was at Mrs. Frankweiler's house when they found the statues' papers a minute before their time was up. I think that anyone who likes fun and adventure would really like this book.
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Summary: Time well spent
Review: Claudia had it all planned perfectly. She would run away from home with her younger brother Jamie...of course they want to run away to someplace warm, so they chose the Metropolitan Museum in New York City...once they got inside the museum, it was easy...except that one time when Jamie was almost caught.A janitor found Jamie in the museum after it was closed and asked where he can from...Jamie's reply "My mom says I came from heaven." Find out how Claudia and Jamie survive inside the museum and solve a mystery about a statue within the museum.
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Summary: Fall in love with Jamie and Claudia...
Review: F.T.M.U.F.O.M.B.E.F. is a very humorous book. I grew to love the characters, namely Jamie. I like Claudia too, since I understand her, but Jamie's a funny, cute, caring little brother. It's rather hard NOT to fall in love with him. Mrs. Frankweiler also kept me laughing, with her critical comments to Mr. Saxonberg. And the end very much stunned and excited me. This is an imaginative book that I'd recommend to kids in grades 2-6.
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Summary: Beautifully Written!
Review: THIS IS ONE OF MY MOST CHERISHED BOOKS! IT IS SO GOOD FORMYSTERY-LOVERS! I WISH KONIGSBURG WROTE MORE BOOKS, BUT I LOVE THEMALL! THIS IS BETTER THAN NANCY DREW BOOKS AND OTHER MYSTERY BOOKS. IT IS ABOUT TWO SIBLINGS THAT HAVE RUN AWAY AND WILL LIVE IN THE METROPALITON MUSEUM OF ART. YOU WILL HAVE A GOOD LAUGH AT THE WAY THEY HANDLE THINGS AND HOW THEY GET MONEY. I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYBODY ABOVE 7. BUY IT NOW!
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Summary: Really good
Review: I thought the book had a lot of excitment,I thought the only thing they could of done better is that they didn't tell why Jamie ran away with Claudia,and they should of have had more adventure and they would get caught and run away.But other than that this was a very exciting book to read.
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Summary: Really Cute
Review: We've read this book in class! it's really cute! y'all should read this! take this from an 11-year-old movie writer--- IT"S WELL WRITTEN AND FUN!
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Summary: Not So Good
Review: If you would like to have a adventure, you will like this book. But in my opinion, the book was not good. They all were talking and fighting a lot. The only cool thing in it was that they ditched school. The book had a lot of weird critters. The book was kind of hard to understand.
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Summary: EXCELLENT book for kids!
Review: This is one of my all-time favorite kids books, one that I remember reading as a child, & LOVED it! Still do. It's a very interesting story, one that will hold a kid's attention.
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Summary: From the Mix-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. frankweiler
Review: From the Mix-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is alright! In the book, Claudia went from an immature girl that acts childish,to an adult-like girl that makes mature decisions. She decides to take her little brother with her when she runs away from home. They get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They go to the bathroom as the museum is closing so they can stay for awhile. Claudia wants to spend her brother's money for things they don't need,like a newspaper or a meal from an expensive restaurant. After that,they saw a statue of an angel and want to find out who made it. I don't want to give it away, so I won't say any more. The book was alright and it's worth reading.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: Two young siblings, Claudia and Jamie, run away from home and hide out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in this Newbery Award winning book, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler. After Claudia decides that she is tired of dealing with injustice in her family-having to do the dishes and the trash on the same night while her three brothers do neither-Claudia saves up her money and talks her younger brother Jamie into running away with her. This wonderfully written book shares their adventures of hiding out in a museum for a few weeks and how they helped uncover the age-old mystery of who the artist of a beautiful statue was. I see this book to be a great example of a classic young adult novel. Not only did it win the Newbery Award, but it meets several other criteria as well. "Children's Classics in the Electronic Medium" defines a classic book as "books that have stood the test of time" (186). This means that the books have been passed down from generation to generation and "it has something important to say" (186). Classic books, the article notes, also "include such elements as effective characterization, narrative, illustration, and an enduring and universal message or moral" (186). The only aspect missing from this book being classified as a classic is being passed down from one generation to the next. This will take care of itself over time, and surely From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler will become a classic novel. First, Konigsburg does a great job of effective characterization. Konigsburg describes Claudia, the main character, not only physically, but also using the thoughts that are going through Claudia's head. Claudia describes why she is running away as "Maybe it had to do with injustice...A reason that had to do with the sameness of each and every week. She was bored with simply being straight-A's Claudia Kincaid. She was tired of arguing about whose turn it was to choose the Sunday night seven-thirty television show, of injustice, of the monotony of everything (12). The book goes on to discuss what Jamie and the rest of Claudia's family is like. It digs deeper than just surface characterization. By the end of the descriptions, the reader understands what is going on in side the main characters' heads. Konigsburg also does a great job of effective narration. As the reader reads further along in the book, it is discovered that the entire book is written from the point of view of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler in a letter to her lawyer of the events that took place of how she met Jamie and Claudia. Anytime there might be an event that is unclear to the readers, Mrs. Frankenweiler explains it in more detail in parentheses as writing to her lawyer. For example, when describing the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mrs. Frankenweiler writes, "Shame on you! You've never set your well-polished shoes inside that museum. More than a quarter of a million people come to visit that museum every week" (37). Including additional information for the readers made the narration of the story even more enjoyable. As one can see, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler is well on its way to becoming a classic young adult novel. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would suggest it to any young adult.
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