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Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Dupayne Museum, founded by Max Dupayne, is dedicated to the preservation of England's history between the world wars. As the museum's trustees, Max's three heirs -- Marcus, Neville, and Caroline -- debate the fate of the Dupayne. Brash psychiatrist Neville is determined to close it down, a position that is bitterly opposed by his two siblings. When Neville is found heinously murdered, Commander Adam Dalgliesh of the Special Investigation Squad...
4) Bellewether
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007, c1997
Edition
1st Bookshelf ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to the museum, Katie climbs into five Impressionist paintings and has wonderful adventures. Includes information about Impressionism, the paintings shown, and their artists.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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...
8) The Doldrums
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Ladybug Girl volume 9
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Colossal fossil
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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?"--
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 1
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged [retail edition].
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
24 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Katie, her father, JoJo, and Pedro are on a special sleepover at the museum; but at night the dark halls are spooky, and it is easy to imagine that the dinosaurs are ghosts haunting the museum--and when Mr. Woo disappears the children become frightened.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire--to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum...
15) Museum day
Author
Series
We both read volume Level K
Publisher
Treasure Bay
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
41 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A father and daughter spend the day a the museum. Told in rhyme. Text on one page is meant to be read by a parent/adult while text on a facing page is simple enough to be read by a child just learning to read.
18) Mossy
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Mossy, a turtle with a garden growing on her shell, is taken from her home and new friend to become an exhibit in a museum, until the director's niece, Tory, notices how sad Mossy is and helps arrange for her to go home.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
20) I am Confucius
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm +2 leaves of stickers.
Language
English
Description
"When Xavier and Yadina can't stop fighting, Brad decides it's time for the trio to head to the Secret Museum! They're sent to China in the year 543 BCE to meet Confucius. He teaches them "The Golden Rule": Treat others how you would like to be treated"--
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