Author: E. L. Konigsburg
Introduction: She also wrote the book called “The Viewfrom Saturday”. This book is similar to “From the mixed-up files of Mrs.
Basil E. Frankweiler” because it has
the same targeted audience and has the
same theme, and that is “being alone can always be your worst enemy”.
Summary: This book is about a girl
named, Claudia Kincaid and her brother, Jamie Kincaid. Claudia is a person that
kind of wants attention, but never gets it because she has other siblings in
her family like her little brother. Thinking that everything she does doesn’t
get appreciated by her parents or anyone. Like cleaning the house looking after
her brother, doing almost every chore in the book. She decides to run away,
thinking that it would make everyone worry and think that they should pay
attention to her. To carry out her plan she decides that bring her brother,
Jamie was the greatest idea ever. There was a good thing and a bad thing to
bring him with the runaway plan. The good thing is that he understands Claudia
a little more than her parents, and the bad thing is that he doesn’t like being
bossed around a lot. Claudia’s plan was how do you say? You can say it’s the
oldest runaway plan ever. Like running away because you’re angry, and only
carrying things that you need, like a knapsack. The thing with Claudia is that
she is picking when coming to picking a place to stay. Even going to a picnic
party is untidy and inconvenient for her. So when she planned to run away her
home to the bustling city to New York, she decided that living in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City was perfect for her and her brother
to stay. Later they meet a woman named Mrs. Frankweiler at an auction, and they
later found out that Mrs. Frankweiler is a collector and lives in Connecticut.
Analysis/Review: If I were
to rate this book, I would give it a 7 out of 10, because it was kind of slow
and not really my opinion of a great book. I say if you like to read books
about teenagers learning a lesson and thinking about stuff they did in the
past, I would recommend this book to you, but if you want a mystery with a bit
of history in it, I wouldn't recommend really spend your time with this book
Book Review by Jenny T.
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