museums

"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"--Provided by publisher.

"The extraordinary orphans Sam, Philippa, Thomas, and Max have just started to recover from their capture and subsequent escape from the evil Nicholas Rattigan. But the childrens' lives don't stay quiet for ling. A slew of bank robberies is terrorizing the city. And when General Farnum, the ringmaster of the museum's now immensely popular flea circus, is charged with murder, the search for the real killer uncovers a plot much bigger than any individual crime, a plot that can only be the work of Nicholas Rattigan."--Dust jacket.

When the spacesuit of famous astronaut Sally Ride disappears from a traveling exhibit, Amal Farah, daughter of the Air and Space Museum's archivist, and her three friends, are determined to find the culprit before the exhibit is cancelled.

Nancy, Bess, and George can't wait to start their trip to Nantucket. The three girls are there to visit Bess s family friend Jenna and go to the opening of an exhibit at the local whaling museum. Jenna s been working on the exhibit for months, but when the girls get to the museum, a threatening banner has replaced the welcome sign.

Liz can t wait for her sleepover at the Santa Vista Art & History Museum! After all, it s been her dream to stay overnight at a museum. But when the lights go out, Liz starts to hear noises: a flutter here, a rustle there. Where are the noises coming from, and what is making them? Will this museum sleepover actually turn into a nightmare?.

Brum, a small antique car, has an adventure with schoolchildren on a field trip to the big Museum and then shows them the motor museum where he is usually on display.

Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

After getting help for their father, who is cursed with rapid aging, twelve-year-old djinn twins John and Philippa and friends travel through the spirit world in search of Faustina, the only one who can keep their mother from becoming the Blue Djinn, and discover a link to museum thefts and hauntings throughout the word.

Taylor Mason loves ancient Egypt, and has grown up fascinated by the incredible culture. Unfortunately, the nearest she's going to get to Egypt is a special exhibit at the Haunted Museum of treasure that belonged to the famous Queen Nefertiti. But Egypt is closer than she thinks. At the museum, Taylor picks up a scarab necklace during a robbery, and for a moment finds herself standing in a cave, gazing out at the blazing Egyptian desert. When her parents suddenly decide to take her along on a trip to Egypt, she finds herself being pulled more and more into the past, even as she wonders if she's being followed in the present.

Scooby and the gang are digging for dinosaur bones for the museum when some of the bones go missing. Did a dinosaur ghost take them? It's up to the gang to find the missing bones and save the exhibit. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.