The Sixty-Eight Rooms
The Sixty-Eight Rooms (The Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventures)
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
Greg Call, Marianne Malone
Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic.Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to 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?Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Science Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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The Sixty-eight Rooms is a magical adventure where sixth graders Ruthie and her friend Jack go on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. The Thorne Rooms are almost the main attraction for this Chicago museum. They are a set of sixty-eight miniature rooms, every room an image of real rooms. But is that all it is, or is there more to these tiny rooms? Well, Ruthie wasn't looking for adventure on this field trip, but she is going to unlock those secrets when they come her way. They must find the answers to this mystery, but were they the only ones to find them?

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