The SixtyEight Rooms, Marianne Malone
The SixtyEight Rooms, Marianne Malone
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The Sixty-Eight Rooms

Author: Marianne Malone

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2011


Synopsis

Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic.

Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to sneak inside and explore the rooms’ secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind?

Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this exciting art adventure!

About The Author

Marianne Malone is the cofounder of the Campus School Middle School for Girls in Urbana, Illinois. She and her husband divide their time between Urbana and Washington, D.C. This is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on May 03, 2023

* I would appreciate knowing how you enjoy my reviews with a comment, not an empty ‘like button’ click. For the first time since a world quarantine, we visited our favourite Ontario charity. It is less than a 2 hour drive but entering other provinces and small towns had been discouraged. I thought th......more

Goodreads review by Allegra on September 03, 2012

I really liked The Sixty Eight Rooms because it is about a girl who find a magical key that has the power to make her shrink to five inches tall. Which is helpfull because in a museum there is an exibit with muniture rooms that were made to look like they were from different places in different year......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on July 31, 2018

Very interesting middle reader book about the Thorne Miniature Rooms found at the Art Institute of Chicago. Love the idea of the rooms coming to life and allowing you to explore them with a little magical help.......more

Goodreads review by Just a Girl Fighting Censorship on August 26, 2014

Just okay. This book had a ton of potential but the author's writing left much to be desired. As a Chicago-area native I have been to the Chicago Art Institute on several occasions and the Throne rooms continue to be one of my favorite exhibits (although I prefer Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle at the M......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin on August 05, 2011

I would rate this one 2.5 stars if I could. When I first head about The Sixty-Eight Rooms, I was excited and intrigued by the book's premise. Having now read it, I am feeling a bit disappointed by the book's overall lack of 'oomph.' Twelve-year-old friends Ruthie and Jack visit the miniature Thorne......more