Mixed-Up Files Indeed
The Wikipedia entry for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is fairly scant, not even mentioning the film adaptation...but I think the fact that someone added the currency conversion data shows just how much Wikipedia can miss the true point of things...
Jamie Kincaid is a lively 9-year-old younger brother to Claudia, who tends to cheat at the card game War for money. He has 24 dollars and forty-three cents, which makes him rich from the viewpoint of an American child in the late 1960s; per the CPI calculator at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24 dollars and forty-three cents in 1968 would be worth $156.88 in 2011.
Jamie Kincaid is a lively 9-year-old younger brother to Claudia, who tends to cheat at the card game War for money. He has 24 dollars and forty-three cents, which makes him rich from the viewpoint of an American child in the late 1960s; per the CPI calculator at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24 dollars and forty-three cents in 1968 would be worth $156.88 in 2011.