The Sixty-Eight Rooms (The Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventures)

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!