Elaine Konigsburg: From the archives of Mrs. Basile E. Frankweiler, the most confusing in the world

12-year-old Emma decided to run away from home - out of boredom and injustice (of course, she was the eldest child in the family, and besides, the only girl!), Run away to where it is safe, beautiful and interesting: to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Together with her, her younger brother Jimmy went on an adventure.

It turned out that the night life of the museum is no less exciting than the daytime - at a time when the Metropolitan is open to visitors.

Emma and Jimmy sleep in a real king bed, swim in the pool, hide behind sculptures from security guards, and during the day mingle with groups of schoolchildren who came on a field trip.

And our heroes will also have to conduct a real investigation and find out who is the author of the Angel sculpture, which the museum bought at an auction for a ridiculous $225? Could it be Michelangelo himself? In an effort to unravel the mystery that eminent art historians have failed to solve, Emma and Jimmy find the statue's former owner, Mrs. Frankweiler.

And here the most fascinating begins: in the archives of this modest old woman there is such a thing!

Illustrations: Veronika Kalacheva

Translation: Evgenia Kanishcheva

Pages: 224 (offset). Hard cover

Dimensions: 246x176x24 mm