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The sixty-eight rooms / Marianne Malone ; illustrations by Greg Call.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Youth Malone Sixty
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Malone, Marianne.
Contributor:
Call, Greg, illustrator.
Youth Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
Series:
Malone, Marianne. Sixty-eight rooms adventure ; 1.
Yearling adventure
Yearling adventure.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Art Institute of Chicago--Juvenile fiction.
Art Institute of Chicago.
Miniature rooms--Juvenile fiction.
Miniature rooms.
School field trips--Juvenile fiction.
School field trips.
Magic--Juvenile fiction.
Magic.
Art Institute of Chicago--Fiction.
Miniature rooms--Fiction.
School field trips--Fiction.
Size--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Genre:
Children's stories.
novels.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Novels.
Physical Description:
272 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Edition:
1st Yearling ed.
Other Title:
68 rooms
Place of Publication:
New York : Yearling, 2011, ©2010.
Summary:
Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.
Contents:
A better-than-average field trip
What Jack found
Ruthie braves it
Mr. Bell
A second attempt
The plan
Mrs. McVittie
Jack's idea
Sophie
Attacked!
A voice from the past
The uses of duct tape
A boy named Thomas
A wish fulfilled
A surprising discovery
Detective work and ringing bells
A dusty old shop
Solved!
Something left behind.
Notes:
"A Yearling book."
"Book 1."
A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN:
9780375857102
0375857109
9780375857119
0375857117
9780375957109
0375957103
OCLC:
742288255

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