New Releases by E. L. Konigsburg

Esta historia de aventuras sobre la búsqueda de la identidad en uno de los museos más importantes del mundo ha encantado a lectores de todas las edades durante más de 35 años.

Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

The many sights of New York provide daily distractions for Amy Elizabeth and Grandma as they attempt to find the time to go see Bloomingdale''s.

ALA Notable Book "Horn Book" Fanfare Winner of the International Children''s Literature Association''s 1999 Phoenix Award * A retired college president is determined to best a young beachcomber * A store manager accuses a boy of shoplifting * A tour guide strikes a bargain with an enterprising orphan * A boy recovering from a broken arm befriends an elderly woman in an old folks'' home * A widow and her son seize an opportunity presented by a pair of antiques dealers In each of these extraordinary short stories from the perceptive pen of E. L. Konigsburg, a chance meeting between two people casts a shadow on what things have been and what they can become, and changes a life forever.

Here is a wonderful gift for any young reader--a boxed set of three highly acclaimed, immensely popular Newbery Medal-winning books. The set includes "M.C. Higgins, the Great", by Virginia Hamilton; "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler", by E.L. Konigsburg; and "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH", by Robert C. O''Brien.

Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather''s sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chloë and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.

Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and find a place to live in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, then find that they still have a couple of problems to deal with.

Samuel Todd shows readers some inventions that make his day easier and better, including velcro, a thermos bottle, training wheels, backpacks, and mittens.