The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
The perfect next step for kids who love the Magic Tree House series, time travel, mystery, and adventure Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the deep inside the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms. Each room is set in a different historic period, and every detail is perfect. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. But what if on a field trip, you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you could sneak inside and explore the rooms' secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? . . . And that someone had left something important behind? Eleven-year-olds Jack and Ruthie are about to find out Irresistible.--The New York Times Marianne Malone has tapped into a fantasy that is . . . completely universal.--Chicago Tribune A solid story. Recommend this book to fans of Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer.--School Library JournalMARIANNE MALONE is the cofounder of the Campus School Middle School for Girls in Urbana, Illinois. She is the mother of three grown children and a former art teacher. Urbana and Washington, DC are where she and her spouse split their time. It's her debut novel, and it's a good one. Visit MarianneMalone.com for Teacher's Guides (with Common Core tie-ins) and more. This is an excerpt from the Hardcover edition.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375857102 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375857109 |
| Title | The Sixty-Eight Rooms |
| Author | Marianne Malone |
| Series | Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventures |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| Year published | 2010-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Commended for E.B. White Read Aloud Award (Middle Readers) 2011, Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) (Fiction) 2010, Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (Intermediate) 2013, Short-listed for Massachusetts Children's Book Award 2012, Short-listed for Sasquatch Award 2013, Short-listed for Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award 2012 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |