The Sixty-Eight Rooms
By Marianne Malone; Greg Call (Illustrator)
(Yearling, Paperback, 9780375857119, 288pp.)
Publication Date: April 5, 2011
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc, Hardcover,
Categories: Art (painting sculpture artists architecture etc.), Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories, Action & Adventure - General
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Spring 2010 Kids' Next ListFans of magic, mystery, and adventure will love the first exciting Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventure—the perfect next step for kids who loved the Magic Tree House series, and readers who love Chasing Vermeer, The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and Wonderstruck! Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the deep inside the Chicago Art Institute they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms. Each room is set in a different historic period, and every detail is perfect. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. Imagine—what if on a field trip, you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you could 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?
The New York Times:
"Irresistible."
Chicago Sun-Times:
"Exhilarating."
Chicago Tribune:
"Marianne Malone has tapped into a fantasy that is . . . completely universal."
MARIANNE MALONE is the mother of three grown children, a former art teacher, and the cofounder of the Campus School Middle School for Girls in Urbana, Illinois. She and her husband divide their time between Urbana and Washington, DC. This is her first novel. You can visit her Web site at MarianneMalone.com.
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