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Theodosia Throckmorton books volume 4
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English
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When eleven-year-old Theodosia and her cat, Isis, travel to Egypt to return the Orb of Ra and the Emerald Tablet, she hopes to learn more about her origins but finds, instead, the Serpents of Chaos and a precious treasure that suddenly appears and disappears.
2) The Doldrums
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Doldrums volume 1
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English
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An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
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Moffats volume 4
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English
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The adventures of the Moffat children living in Cranbury, Connecticut in the early twentieth century as they create a museum, participate in their sister's wedding, and try to buy a trolley car.
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Theodosia Throckmorton books volume 3
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English
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Eleven-year-old Theodosia's ability to detect black magic raises her suspicions about a magician known as the Great Awi Bubu, while Henry, home for the spring holidays, discovers an artifact at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities that is coveted by every black-cloaked occultist in London.
6) Wonderstruck
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English
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Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing. Set fifty years apart, these two independent stories -- Ben's told in words, Rose's...
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Hyperspace High volume 2
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English
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Now a full-time student at Hyperspace High, John Riley and his fellow classmates go on a field trip to the high security museum planet of Archivus Major--but the trip goes badly wrong when two rival tribes of aliens are "accidentally" released from a cryogenic storage cube.
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Pandava volume 1
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English
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"Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. While her classmates are jetting off to exotic vacations, she'll be spending her autumn break in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture that her mom curates. Is it any wonder Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe...
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After being put back to sleep and abandoned in an old museum, Slappy is brought to life by a curious girl on a school trip. Out for revenge, Slappy uses his powers to raise an army of creatures from the exhibits. But when the museum closes, Slappy and his new friends are locked inside with Arragatis, an ancient mummy with his own plan for revenge. It's dummy versus mummy as Slappy faces his most dangerous and frightening opponent yet! Can Slappy defeat...
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Mr. Penguin volume 1
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English
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"Aspiring Professional Adventurer Mr. Penguin and his colleague, Colin the spider, try to find a treasure rumored to be buried in The Museum of Extraordinary Objects before bandits do."--Back cover.
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English
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When a visiting history professor finds a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Albert J. Somer, founder of Somerville, in the Somerville Museum, the whole town is soon buzzing with ideas about what to do with the money the valuable artifact will bring in--so when the letter disappears siblings Rowan and Astrid Vega and their friends Jace and Quinn set out to find it.
12) Hidden Pictures
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 19
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English
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In the sleepy town of Shady Oaks, Nancy Drew and her friends investigate an exhibit of photographs, rumored to be cursed, and their connection to the disappearance of two people.
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Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Samantha "Sam" Archer, her friends, and their "kindergarten buddies" are on a trip to the River City Children's Museum, which has been plagued by vandalism, and it is up to the sixth-graders and their new buddies to figure out who the vandals are and why they are set on closing the museum.
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Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When the plans for the Bat-Wing, a historical aircraft, disappear from the Capitol City Air and Space Museum, eleven-year-old Amal Farah's father is blamed, and it is up to the four young friends to solve the mystery and save her father's job.
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a series of accidents and other strange happenings at the Capitol City Natural History Museum lead to rumors that the museum is being haunted by the ghost of a Pterosaur, ten-year-old Wilson Kipper and his friends set out to solve the mystery.
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Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
James "Gum" Shoo and his friends are on a trip to the River City Natural History Museum, where they discover that a small dinosaur model and some chickens have both gone missing--and the four sixth-grade detectives promptly set out to discover who is behind the theft.