Summer Blog 1- The Sixty-Eight Rooms finished *No spoiler eddition*

 Basic Idea of plot

No Spoilers

     Okay so the scene is set in Chicago present day where two best friends Ruthie and Jack are on a six-grade field trip to the Art Museum. After they see the exhibit that relates to the section they are on in history class about Africa,  they go in the Thorne Rooms, which are sixty-eight miniature rooms that are to perfect scale and based in parts of history like pre-revolutionary France, Colonial America, Medieval Europe, and Japan in a point of time that is in the significant past as I

understood, (At least from our time now, it could have been modern when it was made) but not elaborated on. 

      While looking at the rooms, which Ruthie is enchanted by, Jack's mom, who is a chaperone, chats with the security guard Mr. Bell. They are given access to see the corridor behind the strip of European rooms, where maintenance is done and the rooms are back lighted from. When Jack goes in, he finds a Key. A fancy old skeleton key, with the initials CM carved into it. 

     On the way home, he shows it to Ruthie and they decide to go back in order to put it where it had been found, in case it was important. They get back into the corridor, thanks to Mr. Bell. Ruthie takes it, and shockingly begins to shrink until she  is about five inches tall. Once they realize there aren't any ill-effects to the magic, Jack deposits her into one of her favourite rooms from the day before, E17, a sixteenth century French bedroom. All of the rooms seem to be connected from what I understand by how they move about,but I'm not quite sure... perhaps the tables the back parts in the corridor are all one thing and you can just walk for a bit and then get to another. Anyway, once she's done with E17 and there's still a break in the crowed, she goes to E12, an English Drawing Room from the 1800's, and finds out that the instruments like the Harpsichord and the Violin in the room are fully functioning. Out of tune, but real.  

     The rest of the story follows their adventures in the corridor at night, the findings of something lost for Mr.Bell, and worrying about whether or not Jack and his mom will get kicked out of their lot because artists cannot always sell their paintings when they need to.

Picture of E17