A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter.

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is composed of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons...

It's 1759 and the world is at war, pulling the North American colonies of Britain and France into the conflict. When captured French officers are brought to Long Island to be billeted in private homes, it upends the lives of the Wilde family. Lydia Wilde, struggling to keep the peace in her fracturing family following her mother's death, has little time or kindness to spare for her unwanted guests. And Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran has...

Learn about ancient people and the objects they left behind.

Lulu, who likes to dress in a ladybug costume, wants to learn everything when she visits the natural history museum with Grandpa, but as she moves from exhibit to exhibit, she discovers that sometimes you have to slow down to appreciate the wonder of what is around you.

"A Harper trophy I can read book."A little boy is surprised and pleased when one of the dinosaurs from the museum agrees to play with him.

"It's sleepover night at the children's museum. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose can't wait to see the museum's colossal fossil--a giant Spinosaurus skeleton--and tour the exhibits long past closing time. But later, they wake to a terrible crash! Is the dinosaur fossil damaged? Or is there another big problem at the museum?"--

Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.