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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After his teacher says that anything can be in an art exhibition, and his fellow students give myriad reasons why something might belong in a museum, a child offers his special grandmother as an exhibit but when the curator cites a rule against accepting grandmas, the child has a better idea.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Marshfield Manor hosts a charity event, Grace Wheaton, the museum's curator and manager, is happy to lend a helping hand--until a killer makes an unwanted donation. With the town clock in desperate need of repair, local lawyer Joyce Swedburg and her ex-husband, Dr. Leland Keay, are trying to put aside their differences to organize a benefit at Marshfield Manor to raise money for restoration of the beautiful timepiece. While Grace appreciates...
Author
Series
Junkyard adventures volume 9
Publisher
Handersen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Siblings Eli and Grace explore ancient Egypt with some new friends, help a sick woolly mammoth, and meet a mysterious black cat at the Museum of Everything. Includes instructions on how to make a paper pyramid.
Author
Series
Friendships and Festivals volume Book 2
Publisher
Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Do they have a future together, or is their relationship ancient history? Anna Cohen, perpetual assistant at the Manhattan Museum of Jewish History, lands a golden chance to curate her own exhibit when her boss sends her to Rockliffe Manor, New York. She's to assist an influential Jewish family as they organize an exhibit of their own in time for the town's Summer Days Festival. While she's there, Anna just needs to convince them to part with some...
Author
Series
Cobtown story volume 4
Publisher
Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In Cobtown in 1845, ten-year old Lucky Hart describes in her diary the frightening adventure she and her friend Fliberty Jibbert experience when they set out to rescue Oinkey the pig from the Ploomajiggy Museum of Animal History.
92) Amira's Secret
Author
Series
Publisher
MacLaren-Cochrane Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Amira is a girl who is shy and doesn't want anyone to know that she loves to write stories and songs. Amira's life changes forever when she visits a museum and meets the spirit of Enheduanna, an ancient writer from the city of Ur in Mesopotamia.
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a priceless sculpture disappears from the Capitol City Art Museum, thirteen-year-old Clementine Wim, daughter of an assistant curator, and her three friends set out to solve the mystery and recover the Statue of Gudea.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
One morning, Ben finds an envelope containing a very special invitation to come and see the Gee Museum -- a dusty old place under threat of closure. However, once inside he discovers all sorts of incredible things like talking owls, dancing bees, magical bottles, witches, and of course, a hippo at the end of the hall. But most importantly he discovers a connection to his father and the family he never even knew he had. And now he has something important...
97) Oh, Olive!
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Presenting Olive Chen! The most magnificent and brilliant artist in the whole wide world! Her parents are also artists--serious artists--who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes. They know Olive has the talent to follow in their footsteps. But Olive likes to smear, splatter, splash, and even lick. With a brush in each hand, Olive cascades through town with her friends in tow, painting what she wants to, what she feels--until she reaches her parents'...
98) 2095
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 5
Language
English
Description
While on a field trip to New York's Museum of Natural History, Joe, Sam, and Fred travel one hundred years into the future, where they encounter robots, anti-gravity disks, and their own grandchildren.
Author
Series
Ghost buddy volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a night at the museum finds ghost Hoover Porterhouse face-to-face with the spirit of a powerful Chumash Indian princess, his encounter renders him senseless and tests the steadfastness of Billy Broccoli.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 15
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Liz's dream of a sleepover at the Santa Vista Art & History Museum turns into a nightmare when strange noises and shadows fill the night.