From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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Book Information

Publication Date: 1967


Reading Level: Lexile Measure 700L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level S


Interest Level: Grades 4-5


Major Awards: 1968 Newbery Medal


Number of Pages: 168 pages


Approximate Word Count: 31,030 words -- The average reader will spend 2 hours and 4 minutes reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler at 250 words per minute.*


Audible Book Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins


Book Themes: Family, Dissatisfaction, Dreams and hopes, Art and Culture, Wealth, Truth, Freedom and Confinement, Youth


Genre: Young Adult Literature; Mystery


Setting: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City


Important Quote: Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.


First Line: Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.


Point of View: First Person (Peripheral Narrator)


* Estimate from Reading Length

 

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Vocabulary List

abrasion
accomplish
accumulate
acquire
acquisition
ambition
anxious
ascend
associated
astound
attribute
attributing
authenticity
baroque
biographer
briskly
browse
butler
chancellor
chandelier
charity
cheapskate
coincidence
commotion
commute
companion
complicate
complicated
condemn
condemned
confident
conscience
consensus
consult
corpuscle
corridor
curator
despair
dismal
elegant
embalm
emblem
embroider
emerge

emit
exchequer
executive
expenditures
extravagant
fidget
forgery
frantic
frayed
heroine
hesitate
homesick
hunch
idol
imposter
impostor
income
inconspicuous
indecent
inherit
injustice
insane
intrigue
intrigued
jostle
juvenile
kaleidoscope
knapsack
laundromat
lecture
modest
monotony
muted
muttered
narrow-minded
obvious
ornate
pagan
pamphlet
pauper
peculiar
pedestal
peer
penetrate

percolator
perilous
perspire
persuade
petit fours
pharaoh
quarrel
regret
remarks
righteous
sarcastic
sarcophagus
sari
satisfactory
saunter
sauntered
solemn
solemnly
sonnet
sprite
stealthily
stifle
stonemason
stowaway
stroll
suburbs
tapestry
technique
telepathy
temptation
thorough
tightwad
tip
trance
transistor
traveler's check
triumphant
tycoon
tyranny
ulcer
vain
vendor
veto

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