Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the deep inside the Chicago Art Institute they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms. Each room is set in a different historic period, and every detail is perfect. Some might even say, the rooms are <i>magic.</i> Imagine—what if on a field trip, you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you could 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 <i>Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, </i>and<i> The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs  Basil E. Frankweiler</i> will be swept up in the magic of this classic feeling debut!