time capsules

Future journalist and middle schooler Nora Tucker is at Wolf Creek for summer vacation and decides to collect documents for a community time capsule. Then two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison. Now doors are locked, helicopters search the woods nearby, and police patrol the school grounds. The fear brings out the worst in the townspeople. Nora, and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison, suddenly find themselves in the middle of the situation.

From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.

When Benny decides to dig a hole in the back yard, Grandfather gives him an old map that leads to a special discovery.

Identical twins Elizabet and Jessica are on different teams in a special schoolwide contest to decide what will be buried in a time capsule.

Explores the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, describing the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, efforts at excavation, and archaeologists' discoveries about the daily life of Romans.

A wordless picture book in which several children discover a box hidden by a boy many years before, and they follow the directions on a map they find in the box all the way to Seahorse Pier.

The Pee Wees want to fill a time capsule with something memorable.

Helen and her friends assemble a time capsule, hoping that someone from the future will find it and send it back, but things turn out differently than anyone expected.

Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.

Megan travels through the magic mirror to a masquerade ball during the Revolutionary War where she promises to help a girl who is desperate to get a message to Thomas Jefferson.