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Author
Series
A to Z mysteries.Super edition volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve a mystery at the Museum of Science"--
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest business tycoons. Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the...
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
77 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Bailey School Kids take a field trip to a science museum, where they meet Dr. Victor and his hulking assistant, Frank. Secrets lurk behind every door in the spooky old museum. What's Dr. Victor doing in his hidden lab? And could Frank be Frankenstein's monster -- even though he loves to plant flowers?"--
11) I am curious!
Author
Series
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, Princess Truly visits the science museum with her brother, solves the mystery of her missing snack, and uses her magic curls to take a trip to outer space with her pug, Sir Noodles.
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Little Critter visits a science museum with his classmates where they play with a tornado machine, build a potato battery, and experiment with a giant magnifying glass.
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kid-friendly guidebook to three major Smithsonian Museums: The National Air and Space Museum, The National Museum of Natural History, and the National Museum of American History"--
14) 2095
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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.
15) Curioddity
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Will Morgan is a creature of habit--a low-budget insurance detective who walks to and from work with the flow of one-way traffic, and for whom imagination is a thing of the distant past. When a job opportunity enters the frame in the form of the mysterious Mr. Dinsdale--curator of the ever so slightly less-than-impressive Curioddity Museum--Will reluctantly accepts the task of finding a missing box of levity (the opposite of gravity). What he soon...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's classroom, and they do everything the students do--listening at storytime, painting masterpieces during art class, and keeping their own special journals. But when it's time for the school science fair, the mice aren't sure just how to get involved. Lucy wants to time them as they run through a maze, but they want to do an experiment, not be an experiment. Then Zeke comes up with a great...
17) Frozen enemies
Author
Series
Hyperspace High volume 2
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
285 pages : ill. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now a full-time student at Hyperspace High, John Riley and his fellow classmates go on a field trip to the high security museum planet of Archivus Major--but the trip goes badly wrong when two rival tribes of aliens are "accidentally" released from a cryogenic storage cube.
18) The paper museum
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world where paper is obsolete, twelve-year-old Lydia must solve the disappearance of her parents, save her home and the Paper Museum, and repair her relationship with her best friend before her town descends into chaos and everything is lost.
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in a fictional prairie town in which the two overarching industries are a living history facility and a laboratory for experiments in high-energy particle physics, [this book] tells the intertwined stories of two families."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 214 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A major new history of how, between 1965 and 1985, African nations sought the restitution of works of art stolen during the colonial period, written by the most important and influential figure in the field"--Provided by publisher.
For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In 'Africa's Struggle for Its Art', Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this...
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