The Sixty-eight Rooms

from LeslitGS

Ruthie is pretty sure that nothing interesting will ever happen to her until she and her best friend Jack discover a key in the hall behind the Thorne Rooms while on a field trip at Chicago's Art Institute. Even more interesting is the fact that the key shrinks Ruthie down to the perfect scale to...

from AbundanceofBooks

Ruthie's class wraps up a school field trip to Art Institute of Chicago with a visit to the Thorne Rooms- a collection of 68 miniature rooms. Ruthie becomes a little obsessed with the tiny perfection of the rooms and the princess-like quality of one room in particular. She imagines herself sleepi...

from bookczuk

I wanted to like this a whole lot more that I did. I ended up just getting annoyed with the kids. What I really wanted, I guess, was From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg, only set in the Thorne Rooms of the Art Institute of Chicago (one of my Favorite Places on...

from pacey1927

The idea behind "The Sixty-Eight Rooms" is positively delightful. Two children who are enamoured by the Thorne Rooms, miniature rooms, at the museum find themselves magically able to get small and get inside the rooms. These are some inventive kids and they do a great job of working everything ou...

from delphica

I was disappointed that this was only rather middling. I loved the premise -- during a school field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, sixth grader Ruthie and her friend Jack discover a magical way of exploring the miniature Thorne Rooms. Which, obviously, are awesome. Unfortunately, once ther...