Ruthie and her friend Jack go to the museum for a field trip. She visits the Thorne Rooms for the first time, and loves them. She continues to visit the museum on the weekend. On the field trip, Jack's mother finds a friend. The security guard. He is missing something dear to him. Can Jack and Ruthie find it?
The Sixty-Eight Rooms (The Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventures)
By Marianne Malone
Book 1 of 4 in the
Sixty-Eight Rooms Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 6 | U | 5.2 | 60385 |
Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic.
Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to 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?
Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!
Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to 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?
Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN-13: 9780375857119
ISBN-10: 0375857117
Published on 4/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
Book Reviews (3)
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I love magic I cant belive I found this is in a magazine You read it
i really like when people enter rooms with magic thats included!!! this book is amazing, two friends find a key that opens up the thorne rooms, wich is amazing,the thorne rooms where real and the author liked to vist them when younger,i thought that was cool. so they vist all these differnt room so before the french revalotion and some near the time of the salem witch trials, you should really read this book