Malone, Marianne.

The sixty-eight rooms / 68 rooms. Marianne Malone ; illustrations by Greg Call. - 1st ed. - New York : Yearling, c2011. - 274 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

A better-than-average field trip -- What Jack found -- Ruthie braves it -- Mr. Bell -- A second attempt -- The plan -- Mrs. McVittie -- Jack's idea -- Sophie -- Attacked! -- A voice from the past -- The uses of duct tape -- A boy named Thomas -- A wish fulfilled -- A surprising discovery -- Detective work and ringing bells -- A dusty old shop -- Solved! -- Something left behind.

Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

ISBN: 9780375857119 (trade pbk.) 0375857117 (trade pbk.)

Source: Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com

LCCN: 2008054556

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Art Institute of Chicago--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Miniature rooms--Fiction.
School field trips--Fiction.
Size--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]