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Escape!

While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself as a runaway slave using the Underground Railroad to make her way to freedom in Canada.

Baseball in April and other stories

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.
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Run with me, Nike

1999
While visiting the Origins of Western Cultures exhibit at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, Tomas finds himself back in time, competing in the Olympic Games in ancient Greece.

Mysterious journey

Amelia Earhart's last flight
1997
While visiting the Amelia Earhart exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, Lucy travels back in time and becomes the famous pilot in the cockpit of her last flight.

The last rail

1996
While on a field trip to the National Museum of American History, nine-year-old Lucy imagines herself as Andrew Russell, taking a picture of the joining of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads at Promitory Summit, Utah, in 1869.

A golden age

1996
While on a field trip to the National Museum of American History, Emma imagines that she is her grandmother, sitting with her family listening to the radio as the end of World War II is announced.

Handshake in space

1998
During a field trip to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Lucy and Kevin time travel to the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and find themselves as Alexei Leonov and Thomas Stafford enacting the historic first rendezvous in space.

The great wonder

1996
While on a field trip to Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, Kevin imagines himself taking part in the final stage of the construction of the Great Pyramid near the Egyptian town of Giza more than 4000 years ago.

Wanted--a few bold riders

a story of the Pony express
1997
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.

Thar she blows!

1997
While visiting a whaling exhibit at the Museum of Natural History, Emma suddenly finds herself transported back in time to a nineteenth century whaling ship.

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