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Title: One Mixed-Up Night
Author: Catherine Newman
Narrator: Monika Felice Smith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-05-17
Publisher: Listening Library
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:
This book is like From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler...but instead of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these two friends are running away to somewhere a little more modern - Ikea.
Frankie and Walter aren't really running away. Just like the kids in their favorite book, they are running to somewhere. Specifically, a massive furniture store. They've been obsessed with the Ikea catalog for years. So they make a plan, pack their backpacks, give their parents the sleepover switcheroo...and they're in.
One night all on their own, with no grown-ups or little brothers.
One night of couch jumping, pillow forts, and unlimited soda refills.
One night of surprises and twinkle lights and secrets they have each been keeping - and waiting to share.
One unforgettable night in Ikea.

Critic Reviews:
"A dazzling debut by an author that we will hopefully be hearing much more from in the future." (Cammie McGovern, author of Say What You Will and A Step Toward Falling)
"Listeners will revel in Frankie and Walter's cathartic romp and learn much about grief, family, and friendship along the way." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:
A sweet story with a simple message...a good read for Tweens
My sister and I are IKEA FREAKS (as I'm sure many adults are), so when I learned of Catherine Newman's book about two middle-school aged friends devising a plan to spend an overnight in an Ikea store, I had to buy each of us a copy...because I think we secretly would love to do JUST THAT, even at our age! It's a fun story. I found the writing to be a little hard to follow at first, because the author has written from the perspective of 12-year-olds, and the way in which they think and speak; since I'm over 40 (way over), it took me a while to fall into the rhythm of those speech and thought patterns. I guess the one thing that for ME seemed a bit far-fetched (perhaps I just don't know enough kids that age), is how enamored these two were with Ikea...they're 12...they don't own a house...what is their motivation for swooning over the catalog and having "wanties" for all the couches and furniture and lamps if they don't have a need for these things yet in life? I guess kids like this are somewhere...I just have never met them. BUT it was still a fun read, and had a simple, sweet message in the end.

believable, relatable, *real* kid characters trying to figure out how to stay life-long friends (plus: IKEA!)
If you love/d From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.