Call number
Collection
Description
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Publication
New York: Simon Pulse
Pages
182
Awards
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1995)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1971)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1970)
Newbery Medal (Medal Winner — 1968)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee — 1968-1969)
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1968)
Flicker Tale Award (Nominee — Juvenile Books — 1987)
Gouden Griffel (Vlag en Wimpel — 1983)
CCBC Choices (2003)
Great Reads from Great Places (New York — 2018)
Idaho Battle of the Books (Elementary — 2021)
Reading Olympics (Elementary — 2024)