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 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.

• ISBN: 9780545041737
• Author: Konigsburg, E.L.
• Published: 2007 , Scholastic Inc.
• Themes: Museum, Runaways, Self reliance, Siblings
• Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Newbery, Realistic Fiction, United States
• No. of pages: 75