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Overview

Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the deep inside the Chicago Art Institute they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms. Each room is set in a different historic period, and every detail is perfect. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. Imagine—what if on a field trip, you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you could 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 The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs  Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this classic feeling debut!

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The Art Institute of Chicago houses a collection of 68 miniature rooms; this collection is called the Thorne Rooms. Each room represents a different place and time; every detail is perfect, almost eerily so. There's something magical about the exquisite detail in each room, and Ruthie, a sixth grader on a class field trip to the Art Institute, is fascinated. Ruthie and her best friend, Jack, discover a key that allows them to shrink small enough to explore the rooms, but as they do, they come to realize that they are not the first—a previous explorer left something important behind, and Jack and Ruthie try to find a way to return it. This is a lively adventure that weaves together the excitement of being small, a magical setting, and history. Reviewer: Melanie Hundley
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Sixth graders Ruthie Stewart and her best friend Jack Tucker are fascinated by the Thorne Rooms, dioramas featuring domestic settings from various historical eras, in the Art Institute of Chicago. In a corridor behind the miniature rooms, Jack discovers a key engraved with the initials CM. When Ruthie touches the key, she shrinks, standing only several inches high. Excited by her transformation, Ruthie quickly explores the room with an elegant canopy bed she admires. The friends scheme to roam through the rooms together when the institute is closed. They see warriors and shooting arrows outside a castle room and concoct stories about their identities when they meet Sophie Lacombe and her tutor Monsieur Lesueur in pre-Revolutionary France and befriend Thomas Wilcox and his family in 1692 Massachusetts, escaping from a crowd frenzied by witchcraft hysteria. Ruthie and Jack find Christina of Milan's journal and other objects, which resolve some issues and present new mysteries. The pair's knowledge of historical events intensifies their concern for their new acquaintances who might suffer harm in impending crises. Their interactions alter those people's lives but do not significantly impact history. Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) edited by Elizabeth Stepina, contains photographs of rooms this novel features. One might also pair it with Eve Bunting's The Lambkins (2005). Reviewer: Elizabeth D. Schafer

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780375857102
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 2/23/2010
  • Pages: 274
  • Sales rank: 367,679
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 730L (what's this?)
  • Series: Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventures Series, #1
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

MARIANNE MALONE is the mother of three grown children, a former art teacher, and the cofounder of the Campus School Middle School for Girls in Urbana, Illinois. She and her husband divide their time between Urbana and Washington, DC. This is her first novel. You can visit her Web site at MarianneMalone.com.

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The Sixty-Eight Rooms

By Marianne Malone

Random House Books for Young Readers

Copyright © 2010 Marianne Malone
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ISBN: 9780375957109
Getting up in the morning was always a challenge for Ruthie. It wasn’t waking up that was difficult—it was getting out of bed. She had to scrunch down to the end of her bed and climb out through the narrow opening between her desk and her sister’s dresser. Then she had to be careful where she placed her feet on the floor because the under-the-bed storage bin for her summer clothes didn’t quite fit under her twin bed. It stuck out just enough to trip her or stub a toe. The other difficult part was to avoid waking up her sister so Ruthie could claim the bathroom first. Claire was older and seemed to need much more time in the bathroom before school—or before going anywhere—than Ruthie did. Ruthie didn’t understand why that was but it was an observation she had made many, many times.
 
Claire was nice enough—not horrible like some siblings Ruthie had heard of. But she took up so much time and space. Mostly space. In their little room, Claire’s stuff dominated by far. She had a computer and a big printer on her already larger desk, all her sports equipment, lots of clothes piled everywhere and a growing mountain of college brochures, SAT study guides and application information. Claire was a junior in high school and starting the process ofapplying to college. Ruthie counted the days till her sister went away to school. Then she would have her own room.
 
This morning Ruthie woke up first and made her way through the small path in their bedroom to the doorway without waking Claire. She looked down the hall—great luck! The bathroom was empty and all hers. Among the kids at her school she was the only one whose family shared one bathroom.
 
Ruthie turned on the shower first to let the water warm up, took her one bottle of shampoo off the wire rack and tried to find a space for it on the shower ledge next to Claire’s and their mom’s gazillion hair care products. It wasn’t easy.
 
As the warm water ran over her back she stood there for a moment, mulling the fact that the shower was just about the only place in her apartment where she could be alone and think privately. She envisioned the day ahead of her, the field trip and what the chances were of something cool happening today. Why not today? After a really exciting or unusual thing happens, do people look back and say, “I thought something would happen today”? Probably not. But why not? Ruthie wondered. Don’t people ever have a feeling,a sign that something great will happen? Her time alone
was interrupted when the door to the bathroom opened, not once but three times.
 
From behind the map-of-the-world shower curtain she heard her dad say, “Sorry, Ruthie, I’m just looking for a book I thought I left in here last night.”
 
“Dad, please!” Ruthie said.
 
“Don’t worry, I can’t see anything! Now, where did I put it?” He closed the door. Sheesh!
 
A minute later it was her mom. “Ruthie, have you seen your father’s book on American history?”
 
“Mom, do you mind? No, I haven’t. He already asked me.”
 
“Well, don’t take too long in the shower. Your sister needs to get going.”
 
Right on cue, Claire came in and started brushing her teeth.
 
“Claire, can’t I have any privacy?”
 
“Oh, Ruthie. Don’t be a prude. Hurry up, okay?”
 
Six hundred and thirty-five days till she goes to college, Ruthie groaned to herself. An eternity!


From the Hardcover edition.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 25, 2010

    Excellent Book

    I really enjoyed reading this book. I had no idea that there was such a room in a museum in Chicago. It made me actually want to go to Chicago and visit the museum just so I could see the 68 rooms that the book talked about.
    This book was very magical and at times you could really identify with the main characters. If you ever felt like you just wanted to go away from the world into a different place and time, this book lets that happen.
    The details with which the book describes the time periods is very accurate. From the Salem Witch trials to the time of Henry The Eighth.
    I am a teacher and I would recommend this book to my students. It was an excellent read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 12, 2010

    What a delightful book!

    I loved this book! I was reading a hard back copy, we bought 3 Nooks while I was in the middle of previewing it for my girls, I ended up buying it agsin for the Nook so I could finish reading that way cuz I was enjoying it so much! It was a fun book and fun fantasy I think we would all love to experiance. I even bought my daughters gold key necklaces to wear while they read the book. Enjoy!

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 5, 2012

    Love thhis bit

    Did not even finish reading it yet but i do not want it to end.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    OMG

    I heart this book. I hoe mariamme maine writes more than two books. It should be a movie dont you think?

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 15, 2011

    Great book

    Loved it it didnt have a lot of action but a really great book. I would have enjoyed it more if it was a series because the author could have made a lot more adventures with jack and ruthie in the thorne rooms. I wish there was really a key because i would love to explore the thorne rooms. Read it you will enjoy it . I know i enjoyed it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2012

    BORING!!!!

    Thiss book was kinda boring i stopped reading after the first chap. BORING!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2012

    Best book ever!!!!!!!!!!!

    I love this stayed up till 12 oclock reading

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2011

    So cool

    Best book i ever read totally worth buying

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  • Posted August 31, 2011

    WOW!!!!

    I loved this book! I read it for Battle of the Books and it was awesome!

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  • Posted August 29, 2011

    Awesome!

    I really must say that this is a must read. Congrats Marianne Malone! This is now one of my favorite books, which a big deal, so you know. This is the best. I've already preordered the second with high hopes for it. Please make more than 2 books, Malone! This is a must have.

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  • Posted August 4, 2011

    i read it in hard copy

    i read it in hard copy at the library and i want it on my nook!

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