When Claudia and Jamie plan to run away from home, they decide that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would be a very comfortable place to live. So they settle in and soon find themselves in the middle of a controversy over the authenticity of a new statue.
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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away... so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped-- right into a mystery that made headlines!
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ISBN–13: 9780689711817
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: Apr-1968
Pages: 168
Lexile Level: 0700
Ages: 09 - 12