conservation and restoration

Presents advice on how and where to buy old cars and parts, and describes how to do repair work, tune-ups, body work, painting and upholstery jobs on old cars.

Presents color photos of 250 holiday scrapbook pages, describing how they were created and listing the materials used.

Presents tips and ideas to help teens design and create contemporary scrapbooking pages that will capture the memories of their life.

Penelope desperately wants to be a doctor, obtaining everything she needs but the patients, and Ms. Brisco, the librarian, teaches Penelope how to mend old books in need of care.

Presents easy-to-follow instructions and full-color illustrations with scrapbooking ideas for kids.

Discusses the origins, construction, completion, uses, history, and eventual ruin and the conservation efforts for the Parthenon built in Athens, Greece.

Students from an elementary school in Rochester, New York, work together to save a lighthouse and, along the way, discover that it may be haunted.

A guide to caring for and repairing books which features easy-to-follow instructions that emphasize the use of common household products in simple book repairs and the cleaning of books and dust jackets.

Describes the environmental threat to many of Egypt's ancient monuments and the various organizations that are dedicated to preserving these sites.

When Maggie Keene's mother starts restoring the town's old courthouse, Maggie is eager to help, but as they work together, they discover that an escaped murderer has been hiding a terrible secret that he would kill to keep.