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The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team investigate the first killing, a...
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Stuck waiting for her family in the art museum when she would much rather be playing outside in the park, a little girl is picked up by two cherubim and taken for a wild romp through several paintings.
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Series
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English
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In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again.
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start...
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start...
8) The museum
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
9) The doldrums
Author
Series
The doldrums volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Archer B. Helmsley wants an adventure. No, he needs an adventure. His grandparents were famous explorers . . . until they got stuck on an iceberg. Now Archer's mother barely lets him out of the house. As if that would stop a true Helmsley. Archer enlists Adelaide, the girl who, according to rumor, lost her leg to a crocodile, and Oliver, the boy next door, to help him rescue his grandparents. The Doldrums whisks us off on an adventure full of sly...
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Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 44
Language
English
Description
When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.
11) Planetary-yum
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Future CatStronaut Waffles and his younger sister Pancake are kittens who enjoy visiting the science museum with Dad-Cat.--
14) Pinky and Rex
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Physical Desc
38 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rex and her best friend Pinky, each the proud possessor of twenty-seven stuffed animals or dinosaurs, find their visit to the museum and its gift shop complicated by Pinky's little sister Amanda.
15) Matthew's dream
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Language
English
Description
A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 21
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A school trip to the natural history museum goes awry when the curator, Ms. Krup, loses her giant cockroach and A.J. and his friends decide to explore the museum in the middle of the night.
17) Smudge
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A smudge in the shape of a little boy falls off a painting and roams around a museum trying to find a new painting to call home.
Author
Series
Joe Sherlock volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a valuable painting is stolen from a local art museum, fourth-grade super-sleuth Joe Sherlock investigates, aided by his sister, Hailey.
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English
Description
"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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