museums

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Micawber

2002
Micawber, a squirrel fascinated by art, leaves a museum with an art student and secretly uses her supplies to make his own paintings.

How the sphinx got to the museum

2010
Follows the history of the sphinx of Pharoah Hatshepust from its creation in ancient Egypt to New York City's Metropolitan Museum.

Wonderstruck

a novel in words and pictures
2011
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.

Mossy

2012
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.

2095

1995
While on a field trip to New York's Museum of Natural History, Joe, Sam, and Fred travel one hundred years into the future, where they encounter robots, anti-gravity disks, and their own grandchildren.

Museums

2003
Discusses the purpose and special collections of different kinds of museums, what goes on behind the scene, and how to start your own museum.

Let's go to the museum

1990
Takes the reader on a trip through a museum.

Museums

1992
An introduction to the variety of museums that exist and the many pleasures they contain.

Time flies

1994
A wordless tale in which a bird flying around the dinosaur exhibit in a natural history museum has an unsettling experience when the dinosaurs seem to come alive and view the bird as a potential meal.

The Ni?a, the Pinta, and the vanishing treasure

an Alec Flint mystery
2009
Amateur sleuth Alec and his sidekick Gina investigate when the Christopher Columbus exhibit disappears from the museum.

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