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Marianne Malone

Born:
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Malone grew up in Chicago. She went to the University of Illinois and currently resides in Urbana.

Biography: Marianne Malone is a former art teacher and co-founder of the Campus Middle School for Girls in Urbana, Illinois.


Awards:
  • '''''The Sixty-Eight Rooms

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children; Young adult readers

Email: mariannemalonebooks@gmail.com
Website: http://www.mariannemalone.com/index.html
Marianne Malone on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=marianne+malone


Selected Titles

Stealing magic :
ISBN: 0375867902 OCLC: 704243720

Random House, New York : 2011.

Chicago sixth-graders Jack and Ruthie return to the Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago and once again go back in time while trying to stop an art thief from endangering the miniature rooms.

The pirate's coin :
ISBN: 030797720X OCLC: 795503516

Random House, New York : ©2013.

A magical coin coin leads sixth-graders Ruthie and Jack to 1753 Massachusetts and to Jack's pirate ancestor when they return to the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms on a mission to restore an African American family's reputation.

  The secret of the key
ISBN: 9780553397215 OCLC: 878393087

In the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms, the Thorne Rooms key and a mysterious set of rings lead Ruthie and Jack to new historical eras and a woman who went missing as a young girl.

The secret of the key /
ISBN: 0307977218 OCLC: 855507160

In the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms, the Thorne Rooms key and a mysterious set of rings lead Ruthie and Jack to new historical eras and a woman who went missing as a young girl.

  The sixty-eight rooms
ISBN: 9780307916358 OCLC: 695991167

Random House/Listening Library, New York : ℗2011.

Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.

The sixty-eight rooms /
ISBN: 0375857117 OCLC: 298324287

Random House, New York : ©2010.

Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.

 

 

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