39 - The Sixty-Eight Rooms

Finished The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone.

Ruthie and her best friend Jack are on a field trip to a Chicago museum when they get to see the Thorne Rooms (68 miniature rooms--some American and some European). These are apparently quite awesome and now I want to see them. A security guard lets them sneak into the corridor behind the rooms so that they can see them from behind and Jack finds a key.

When Ruthie touches the key, she starts to shrink and becomes five inches tall--the perfect height to actually get to go into the rooms and explore them.

It turns out that everything in the rooms are real. For example, you can actually play the violin that's in one of the rooms.

This book is absolutely magical. If you have little kids (elementary aged, say), I think they'd really love this book. (Although you may then have to take them to Chicago to see the real rooms.)