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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
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Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
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Description
"Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. While her classmates are jetting off to exotic vacations, she'll be spending her autumn break in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture that her mom curates. Is it any wonder Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why.
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is a story of stolen violins. It's got mummies, museums, sandwiches, hostages, and a dangerous showdown with the Russian Red Army Choir. Open this book to find out more about my adventures. But beware--this mission is top secret and very dangerous!" --
Author
Series
Critter club volume 15
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Liz is excited for her sleepover at the museum until she hears some spooky noises that may turn this sleepover into a nightmare.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2022 Ebooks
Children's New Books: October 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Children's New Books: October 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
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Description
When a diamond goes missing from the Louvre, it is up to nine-year-old Julieta to identify the thief, exonerate her father, and return home to Boston before her baby brother is born. Includes glossary of French and Spanish words and notes about the Regent Diamond, Athena, and works of art mentioned in the book.
13) 2095
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Ghost buddy volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a night at the museum finds ghost Hoover Porterhouse face-to-face with the spirit of a powerful Chumash Indian princess, his encounter renders him senseless and tests the steadfastness of Billy Broccoli.
Author
Series
Moffats volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the Moffat children living in Cranbury, Connecticut in the early twentieth century as they create a museum, participate in their sister's wedding, and try to buy a trolley car.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After opening a locket at the Haunted Museum in England before embarking on a cruise aboard the Titanic 2, Samantha notices strange things during the voyage and her sister begins calling her by a different name.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alexander's class is going on a sleepover at the Stermont Museum, but something is stealing bright, shiny objects from all over town, including the museum's treasured Ruby Scorpion, and on the night of the visit the young monster hunters finally confront the town's newest monster--a warrior covered entirely by bubble-wrap.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Theodosia Throckmorton books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the thefts, all the while avoiding a string of new governesses.
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