Chapter Book Chips - "The Sixty-Eight Rooms" by Marianne Malone

Ruthie is a sixth-grader who thinks her life is pretty boring. She hopes that something "great" will happen. Her class goes on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago and while visiting the exhibits something "great" does happen. Ruthie and her best friend, Jack, find a very unusual key in front of the Thorne Rooms. The Thorne Rooms are a collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various periods in history. Ruthie discovers that this key allows her to shrink to five inches in size. She and Jack decide to explore the Thorne Rooms and they manage to sneak into the museum over a weekend, shrink down and discover the secret world hidden inside the rooms. What is the magic of these rooms and are Ruthie and Jack the first to discover their mystery? "The Sixty-Eight Rooms" is a fantasy adventure, perfect for grades four through six. -gw-

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