This book had so much promise: two children magically shrinking to explore the Thorne Rooms (at the Art Institute of Chicago) and their various time periods. Idea gets an A+, execution something less . . .While the reading of it is a bit labored and long, we were still excited to go visit the act...
Ruthie and Jack are still basking in the glow of having discovered an album of lost photographs from a famous artist, an album which turned up in the Thorne Rooms when they used a magic key to shrink down and get into them. When they meet Dora Pomeroy, a decorator who is studying the rooms, they ...
Upside of time travel: you have a chance to help someone. Downside: if you change something, your best friend could disappear forever.The class assignment was to learn something about your ancestors. Jack discovers, through his great Aunt George, that he is related to Jack Northfleet, a pirate. S...
things to Dora. By the time Ruthie returned to the ledge, he had embellished the powers of the magic so much that the magic as it existed seemed dull in comparison. He described how some European rooms enabled them to speak in a foreign language, and that in one room he had actually levitated! “S...