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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg
from Aladdin

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• CHILDRENS BOOKS & MUSIC
• Childrens Books
• Language Arts

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Just ew
  I had to read this in 5th grade and it was torture throughout. The story was good but the way it was written gave no true human reactions and it was a normal book with a weird displaced mistery put into it.

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler
  I received 8 of 10 individual orders of this used novel within a few days and the other two before the deadline. The quality of the novels was overall good - perfect covers and very slight yellowing. I had one query from a vendor for which I received a prompt reply from the vendor and from Amazon. I'm very satisfied.

• If I'd Read This Book Forty Years Ago...
  As I child I would have wanted to be Claudia: brave enough to run away, worldly enough to live in a museum, and smart enough to figure out the "cupid" mystery. But having read it only a few days ago, as an adult, I'd like to have written some of lines author E.L. Konigsburg attributed to her narrator Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Here are two examples:
  "Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."
  "...Some days you must... more info

• Still good after all these years
  I feel funny reviewing books that are older than I am (this was published in 1967), but I will share what I thought. I thought this was a cute story, and I don't know how I missed this one when I was young...it seems like it would have been just my style! And, except for a few details (such as how much things cost and the fact that Claudia wears a petticoat), it doesn't feel like it's outdated. I thought a couple of parts were particularly funny, like when Claudia and Jamie find an unopened candy bar on the... more info

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