As Independence Day approaches, Raining Sam and his friend Amal see what they think is the ghost of a soldier lurking around an exhibit on the Vietnam War, after hours at the Capitol City Museum of American History--and he and his friends from the other museums are determined to find out what (or who) is behind the haunting, and why they are doing it.
Alex decides that the only safe place for the mystical pencil is the museum where his father works--but when Marvin borrows the pencil and begins to draw dinosaurs, things quickly get out of hand.
"Fergus, the pet mouse in Miss Maxwell's classroom, stows away in a backpack on a field trip to the museum. He makes a new friend, Zeke, another mouse, who shows Fergus many interesting exhibits, but now he wonders how to get back to school."--OCLC.
During a class field trip to a Pilgrim village recreation, Katie finds herself replacing an actor playing a Pilgrim and, later, when her family goes to New York City, she becomes a clown in the Thanksgiving Day parade.
Discusses careers in the field of history, with information about pay and job prospects, educational requirements, comments from industry insiders, and more.
"A.J. and Andrea are taking a class trip to the museum! Their museum guide has been warned that one of them might misbehave. But who will it be?"--Publisher.
"It looks like science-loving Delia Bean's summer is going to be pretty boring. Her friends are hanging out without her and taking her little brother to the pool might be all the excitement she's going to get. But a trip to visit her Uncle Lyndon is about to change all that. Uncle Lyndon is the curator of the Earth Time Museum--a place outside normal time where Earth's greatest wonders are displayed--and he's offered Delia a coveted internship at the museum. But to get the coolest job ever, she'll have to travel back and forth in time--and compete against five other candidates from all over time. It's gong to take all their combined skills and knowledge to survive dinosaurs, tears in time, and a renegade time traveller whose schemes might just destroy the whole Museum"--Flap of front cover.
Explores various aspects of museums, such as the word "museum," different types of museums, their impact on science, and reasons people collect things, and discusses such topics as the Elgin Marbles and the dodo.
"Skipping a day at her elite New York City prep school when things get a bit too intense, Callie befriends a boy who is doing research throughout the city's museums while they try to reveal why her grandmother wants to travel back to 1986."--Provided by publisher.
