5th Grade - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg: Home

E. L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and be runner-up in the same year. In 1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View From Saturday. She has also written and illustrated three picture books: Samuel Todd's Book of Great Colors, Samuel Todd's Book of Great Inventions, and Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's. In 2000 she wrote Silent to the Bone, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, among many other honors.

After completing her degree at Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. Konigsburg did graduate work in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. For several years she taught science at a private girls' school. When the third of her three children started kindergarten, she began to write. (Novelist)

1. Go to the Metropolitan Museum's website and look at their "Directions and Parking" Information Page.

2. Select the "By Metro-North Railroad" instructions. Claudia would take the "NEW HAVEN LINE" to "GRAND CENTRAL STATION."

3. Look up the cost of a one way ticket from the NEW HAVEN LINE to GRAND CENTRAL STATION. You need to write down the cost aka fare from Greenwich, Cos Cob, RIverside, Old Greenwich to Grand Central Station (GCS).  Specifically write down the child's cost aka fare for ONE-WAY. Bonus Question - Why is one fare in black and one fare in red?