Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed 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 magic.

But 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?

Eleven-year-olds Jack and Ruthie are about to find out!

"Irresistible."--The New York Times

"Marianne Malone has tapped into a fantasy that is . . . completely universal."--Chicago Tribune

"A solid story. Recommend this book to fans of Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer."--School Library Journal