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Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Sam, the shy mouse that lives in the library and likes to write books, and his friend Sarah, visit a museum and write about their experience in each of their journals. Sam shows Sarah that journals can include drawings and artifacts as well as the written word.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book With A Museum In It
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a How-to Book
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a How-to Book
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The first national museum whose mission is to illuminate for all people, the rich, diverse, complicated, and important experiences and contributions of African Americans in America is opening. And the history of NMAAHC--the last museum to be built on the National Mall--is the history of America. The campaign to set up a museum honoring black citizens is nearly 100 years old; building the museum itelf and assembling its incredibly far-reaching collections...
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2016.
Language
English
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Lucy and her little brother, Zach, collect unusual--and commonplace--items from the park and their neighbors to set up a natural history museum in the basement of their apartment building, hoping that Mrs. Blankenship will not find out and spoil their fun.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Alexander's class is going on a sleepover at the Stermont Museum, but something is stealing bright, shiny objects from all over town, including the museum's treasured Ruby Scorpion, and on the night of the visit the young monster hunters finally confront the town's newest monster--a warrior covered entirely by bubble-wrap.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In a secret meeting in 1981, a master thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime. As a kid, Royce had visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made a habit of sneaking in at night to find a good place to sleep. He knew the Museum's security was lax, and he gave this information to a boss of the Boston criminal underworld. It took years before the Museum was hit. But when it finally happened, it quickly...
69) Otter in space
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After visiting an outer space exhibit in a museum, Otter and Teddy decide they need a moon rock, and the only way to get one is to build a space ship and go get one.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's inside story of how the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture was created. By turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, and bittersweet, this is his deeply personal tale of the challenges and rewards of bringing a nationally acclaimed new institution to life"--
72) Explorers
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English
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"When a family goes to a local museum, a boy notices a homeless man sitting outside, making brightly colored origami birds. He convinces his dad to buy a bird the man makes just for him. Once inside the museum, his little sister takes the bird and launches it into the air. Is it lost? Soon another boy helps him look, and the paper bird brings two families--and two new friends--together" --
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English
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Sassy and Waldo love trips!
When they put on their trench coat, everyone thinks they're a human kid named Salty.
They can go to all the places that don't let dogs in. Like school. And the museum.
Stewart says the museum is all facts and learning. He is not excited to go there.
But Sassy and Waldo have a permission slip that says lunch on it.
How can a trip to a place with lunch be bad?
Sassy and Waldo are very excited for their class...
77) Museum mayhem
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English
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When a statue is broken during her class' overnight trip to the museum, Nancy, Bess, and George try to get to the bottom of the mystery and find those responsible.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Museums are great places to see really old stuff. The Kersville Museum has old paintings, old statues, and even old mummies that come with old curses. Sounds like a perfectly safe place to visit for family fun. Until the mummies start to disappear!"--Back cover.
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