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Language
English
Description
In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home, with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items in the time capsule are murdered. Besides...
3) Scavenger
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Series
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Language
English
Description
A high-tech adventure thriller about a life-or-death search for a 100-year-old time capsule
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 150
Language
English
Description
"The Aldens find a hidden time capsule! Inside is a journal with clues to a treasure hunt. Who wrote the journal? And after a hundred years, can the Boxcar Children find the treasure?"--Back cover.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Sofia is on a mission to make a family time capsule. The whole family contributes pictures and special items. Abuela even writes a letter to each of her grandchildren to be opened in fifteen years. Can Sofia really wait fifteen years to find out what that letter says? Adorable art, a table of contents, writing prompts, discussion questions, and an English/Spanish glossary are all included in this early chapter book.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A young schoolboy from the early twentieth century hides a candy box with secret instructions in the floorboards of his boarding school for future generations of schoolchildren to find and follow to a mysterious hidden place. Story without words.
Author
Series
Adventures of Benny and Watch volume 7
Publisher
Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When Benny decides to dig a hole in the back yard, Grandfather gives him an old map that leads to a special discovery.
10) Treasure hunt
Author
Series
Billie B. mystery volume 6
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The school principal has given Billie and the Secret Mystery Club a very important mystery to solve. Many years ago, a time capsule was hidden in the school somewhere, and it's up to the SMC to find it!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Olivia is inspired to save her memories in a time capsule. She is also determined to find the time capsule that Grandma made when she was a little girl. After all, she needs to get ideas about what to put in her own! What will Olivia want to remember when she's all grown up?
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Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Amelia Bedelia's school, the whole town throws a party and a secret time capsule that was buried an entire century before will finally be dug up and opened.
13) The love mints
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Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Maddie and Lori unearth a time capsule with a surprising and magical candy mint inside that makes a boy fall in love with the first girl he sees. Lori gives a mint to Nick. It works! He falls in love with her. The girls plot on how to get Trevor to eat a mint too. But he won't take one. They are down to their final piece when it gets moldy. What are they going to do?
14) Frozen in time
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Anne is assisting Wendy Pyle and Maggie Sloan plan a ceremony for the opening of Blue Hill's time capsule. The capsule is stored in a statue of Lois Stover, one of the town's most famous citizens. Stover not only served as a special agent during World War I, but she was also the first female architect registered in Pennsylvania and provided inspiration for many of Aunt Edie's adventures. But mere days before the ceremony, both the statue and its...
15) Time capsule
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A child gathers keepsakes from everyday life, seals them in a jar, and buries them underground. A gift from the present day ... to people of the future ... that tells a story about the past. A time capsule. The first book for children by renowned artist and writer Lauren Redniss will get readers thinking about the times they are living through and how their world will be remembered in ages to come. It will also spark creativity, inviting young people...
16) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
17) Till then
Author
Series
Whistle Stop Café mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Janet Shaw and Debbie Albright in join in the excitement as the town opens a newly discovered time capsule. When opened, in addition to the usual old photographs and news articles, there are valuable war bonds and a child's version of the time capsule. And when the war bonds are stolen, it will be up to Janet and her friends to not only solve these mysteries but find the thief.