One Monday after school, Claudia reveals her detailed plan to Jamie.
After her family has “learned a lesson in Claudia appreciation,” she plans to return home. In the meantime, Claudia has to save up enough for round-trip train fare. However, she decides she’ll take along nine-year-old Jamie, the second youngest, because he’s “rich” and reasonably quiet. Claudia is running away because of the “injustice” of having to do chores and be responsible for her three younger brothers. She hates being uncomfortable, though, so she chooses a beautiful place to hide: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. When Saxonberg reads the following account, she promises, he will understand why.Ĭlaudia Kincaid, almost 12, wants to run away from home.
Frankweiler to her lawyer, Saxonberg, requesting that certain changes be made to her will. In 1965, the Met did buy a work for $225 that turned out to be the handiwork of Leonardo da Vinci.The novel begins with a note from Mrs. Frankweiler. If the story sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is true-at least partially. In The Mixed-up Files, protagonists Claudia and Jamie find themselves chasing down the origins of an angel statue possibly carved by Michelangelo that the Met bought for a bargain basement price of $250, only to discover Mrs. In a special letter published in the Met’s magazine, Konigsburg wrote: “How had that lonely piece of popcorn arrived on the seat of that blue silk chair? Had someone sneaked in one night-it could not have happened during the day-slipped behind the barrier, sat in that chair, and snacked on popcorn? For a long time after leaving the Museum that day, I thought about that piece of popcorn on the blue silk chair and how it got there.”Īt the heart of Konigsburg’s story is also a juicy art mystery. Since the chair was off limits, blocked off with a velvet rope, her curiosity about how the popcorn had landed in such an unlikely place ran wild. During a visit to the museum with her children, Konigsburg spotted a single popcorn kernel on a blue silk chair that was displayed in one of the museum’s period rooms.
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