Chapter 5 Summary

Jamie and Claudia had been gone from home for three days and were in need of clean clothes; it was decided that on this day, Saturday, they would go to the laundromat to wash clothes and then to the library to learn about Michelangelo. They then walked to the main branch of New York City library, where once there, they started looking for information about Michelangelo and were sent to the children's library. They didn't find what they were looking for there and were sent to a branch library.

At the second library, they found the sort of books they were looking for; Claudia assigned Jamie the task of looking for pictures of the angel statue while she did the reading. While Claudia had hoped to become an expert in everything Michelangelo, she was dismayed when she discovered that it couldn't be accomplished...