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.

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

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.

Watch as six kids rooms are entirely transformed, one simple step at a time. These easy-to-do projects can be adapted to suit your child's changing style, whether you need a toddler's room or space for an independent preteen. Room styles include sweet and old fashioned, artistic and airy, casual and cozy, high-tech and futuristic, rustic and bold, pretty and pastel. Painting, stenciling, sewing, decorating, and woodworking techniques are all made...