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| Original Title: | The Sixty-Eight Rooms |
| ISBN: | 0375857109 (ISBN13: 9780375857102) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Sixty-Eight Rooms #1 |
| Setting: | Chicago, Illinois(United States) |
Marianne Malone
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.69 | 3562 Users | 639 Reviews
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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!
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| Title | : | The Sixty-Eight Rooms (Sixty-Eight Rooms #1) |
| Author | : | Marianne Malone |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | February 23rd 2010 by Random House Books for Young Readers (first published January 1st 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Mystery. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Young Adult. Adventure |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 3562 Users | 639 ReviewsCrit Containing Books The Sixty-Eight Rooms (Sixty-Eight Rooms #1)
An interesting kids book that would be good to get a child interested in going to the Art Institute in Chicago.This book was a huge disappointment. I thought the writing was dull and the plot clunky and over-focused on mundane details (a good author knows to just show the interesting and/or relevant details of their character's lives, not go through every day step-by-step). Despite so many different side plots, the pacing was incredibly slow. I mostly kept reading so that I could find out how the magic of the key and the miniature rooms worked, and unless I missed something huge, there wasn't a
Holy Boring Batman!Our school district has this great (or could be great) idea: One District, One Book. The idea is the school district will give each family a copy of the same district-selected book and have all parents read the book to their kids. Could be fun, right? Except they keep choosing these horribly boring books! Last year it was The Doll People, about doll-house dolls that are really alive but have to not let the humans know. This year the book was The Sixty-Eight Rooms, about kids
(2.5 stars) The Sixty-Eight Rooms has a really fun premise. Sixth-graders Ruthie and Jack visit the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, and discover a magic key that enables them to shrink to doll-size and explore the rooms up close. It turns out that each room opens onto a real landscape from the time it portrays, complete with real people that Ruthie and Jack can interact with. I thought this was a great concept, and I remember thinking that Marianne Malone should set a
This was a fun, light read. It was sort of a From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets the Borrowers meets Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series.Ruthie and Jack go on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, and while there find a key that allows them to shrink and enter the Thorne Room Miniatures. While there, they find out they are not the first to enter these rooms...I found the Thorne Rooms so fascinating, I had to look them up online. Maybe someday I'll get
Have you ever been so enthralled by something, a book, a movie, a piece of artwork; that it magic pulls you in, you can imagine yourself living inside it, as a character in the story? Ruthie has experienced the same thing. She is generally disappointed in her boring life, her small, nothing special apartment, her cramped, shared bedroom, and herself. On a school field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago she finally sees something special. The Thorne Rooms, a set of 68 miniature rooms set into
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