museums

While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself going back in time where, as a runaway slave, she uses the Underground Railroad to make her way to Canada.

While visiting the Pony Express exhibit at the National Postal Museum, Kevin travels back in time and becomes Warren Upson, a famous rider with a difficult route.

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.

In order to win a coveted internship at the Earth Time Museum, Delia must use all her skills and knowledge to survive her travels back and forth through time.

When a boy visits an art museum and one of the paintings comes to life, he has an afternoon of adventure and discovery that changes how he sees the world.

Fergus the class pet stows away in a backpack when the human kids in Miss Maxwell's classroom leave for a field trip to the museum without him.

When Franklin Middle School's sixth grade class visits the River City Museum of Moving Pictures, Sam, Egg, Gum, and Cat discover three mysteries to investigate.

"Thirteen extremely valuable pieces of art have been stolen from one of the most secretive museums in the world. ... Calder, Petra, and Tommy are no strangers to heists and puzzles. Now they've been matched with two new sleuths--Zoomy, a very small boy with very thick glasses, and Early, a girl who treasures words . . . and has a word or two to say about the missing treasure. The kids have been drawn in by the very mysterious Mrs. Sharpe, who may be playing her own kind of game with the clues. And it's not just Mrs. Sharpe who's acting suspiciously--there's a ghost who mingles with the guards in the museum, a cat who acts like a spy, and bystanders in black jackets who keep popping up"--Publisher.

Examines a true crime committed by an obsessed Salmon fly-tier that involved the heist of rare bird specimens from the British Museum of Natural History in 2009. The author explores questions such as; why a person would steal dead birds, what became of the missing specimens, and had the perpetrator been brought to justice.

Introduces eleven unusual museums and museums that are believed to be haunted.