E. L. Konigsburg

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.

Esta historia de aventuras sobre la búsqueda de la identidad en uno de los museos más importantes del mundo ha encantado a lectores de todas las edades durante más de 35 años.

Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her grand uncles have been building in their back yard for over forty years.

Relates, from the point of view of his servant Salai, how Leonardo da Vinci came to paint the Mona Lisa.

Poor Little Rich Boy Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach, and a fancy private school. But with overprotective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream. Then one day a woman appears at the front door claiming to be Caroline -- Winston's half-sister, who was kidnapped and presumed dead long before he and Heidi...