Dixon, Franklin W.
Summary: While participating in a Revolutionary War reenactment, Frank and Joe learn that there has been a real casualty and set out to investigate the incident.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J HBA 6Reid, C. L.
Summary: Emma and her third grade class are going on a field trip to the American History Museum and must write about an exhibit they enjoyed; her best friend Izzie likes the first ladies' gowns, but Emma decides that her favorite is the portraits of the presidents. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE REIBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Somebody is vandalizing exhibits at the Capitol City Museum of American History, and it is up to twelve-year-old Raining Sam and his friends to find the culprit before irreparable damage is done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BRETreml, Renée
Summary: Prehistoric skeleton and museum detective Sherlock Bones and his stuffed-parrot sidekick, Watts, outmaneuver a sneaky raccoon to track down a missing Royal Blue Diamond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etch/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: In this second book in the humorous, mystery-solving graphic novel series that's perfect for fans of Bad Guys, Sherlock Bones and his ragtag team hunt down a swamp monster! Sherlock Bones's home, the Natural History Museum, has added an exciting new exhibit, Reef to Shore, that includes a mangrove forest and shallow coral reef habitat, with touch tanks in between. When Sherlock overhears a that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etch/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: Accepting a dream job at the Harlowe House estate museum in New England, Augusta Podos discovers a Harlowe daughter who was almost completely removed from the family historical record and digs deeper, awakening a sinister power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FoxMayer, Mercer
Summary: Little Critter's class is going to the Critterville Museum of Natural History. They find out the dinosaur exhibit is closed because of a missing Triceratorops bone. Little Critter has an adventure solving the mystery of the lost dinosaur bone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAYSummary: In 1974 a young gallery assistant is drawn into the wild, never-ending party that is artist Salvador Dalí's life in New York City. As he helps the aging genius prepare for an important show, he discovers not everything is as it seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DALFowler, Earlene.
Summary: Attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair, Benni Harper's enjoyment of the fair's activities are put on hold after the theft of a quilt intended for a special exhibition and the discovery of a corpse in the Piebald Family Farm Exhibit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FOWFowler, Earlene.
Summary: Attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair, Benni Harper's enjoyment of the fair's activities are put on hold after the theft of a quilt intended for a special exhibition and the discovery of a corpse in the Piebald Family Farm Exhibit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pedergast set out to investigate the killings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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Summary: "Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: A shipment of dinosaur bones meant for a new exhibit at the Capitol City Natural History Museum has disappeared, and so have the five paleontologists who were working late at the museum, including Wilson Kipper's mother--so Wilson and his museum friends set out to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRESalazar, Noelle
Summary: While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SALFlannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof)
Summary: "It's 1932, and the Great Venus Island Fetish, a ceremonial mask surrounded by thirty-two human skulls, now resides in a museum in Sydney, Australia. But young anthropologist Archie Meek, recently returned from an extended field trip to Venus Island, has noticed something amiss: a strange discoloration on some of the skulls. Has someone tampered with the fetish? Is there a link between it and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAMills, Wendy
Summary: Now: Jesse is still coping with her brother's death on 9/11 and the way her dad filled their home with anger and grief. When one thoughtless decision turns her life upside down, she must face the past to make amends. Then: Alia is a proud Muslim, visiting her father at his office in one of the Twin Towers. Trapped in the flames, she has no choice but to trust a boy she's just met.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILMcClatchy, Lisa.
Summary: Phillip and Nanny are taking Eloise to see the dinosaurs, but will she behave?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MCCPhillips, Tom
Summary: After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHIRaúl the Third
Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUFishbane, Joel
Summary: "The year is 1937 and Andorra Kelsey--7'11" and just under 320 pounds--is on her way to Hollywood to become a star. Hoping to escape both poverty and the ghost of her dead husband, she accepts an offer from the wily Rutherford Simone to star in a movie about the life of Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia giantess who toured the world in the 19th century. In parallel narrative, Anna Swan's story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISMayer, Mercer
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSSummary: When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSKonigsburg, E. L.
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2009