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Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again.
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start...
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start...
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
Author
Series
Ladybug Girl volume 9
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lulu, who likes to dress in a ladybug costume, wants to learn everything when she visits the natural history museum with Grandpa, but as she moves from exhibit to exhibit, she discovers that sometimes you have to slow down to appreciate the wonder of what is around you.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
During Mason's birthday sleepover at the natural history museum, friends enjoy a scavenger hunt but Mason has a hard time choosing the gallery in which they will sleep. Includes facts about museums and a list of notable museums that allow sleepovers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Second grader Ali Tahir considers himself to be a dinosaur expert, but on a class field trip to the natural history museum, Ali keeps getting his facts wrong, and is embarrassed in front of his friends and classmates.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Theodore Roosevelt focusing on his career as a naturalist, his role as a pioneer for wilderness engagement, and an early advocate for museum building"--
"The surprising story of our "naturalist president" Theodore Roosevelt and how his lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement. No United States president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than Theodore Roosevelt--prodigious...
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Things are looking up for best friends Hammy and Gerbee, a hamster and a gerbil, when they find out they're both in Miss Capybara's class. But it's not long before school becomes a battle between the good (Hammy and Gerbee), the bad (spelling bees and pop quizzes), and the evil (mice twins Anna and Hanna). Can things get any worse? Or mischievous? Yep!
Author
Series
Sherlock Bones (Treml) volume 2
Publisher
Etch/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hi there, I'm Sherlock Bones, a mystery-solving superstar! With my trusty partners, silent Watts and sassy Grace, I can crack any case. This time, there is a MONSTER loose in our museum's new ocean reef exhibit. EEK! Plus, we have a new sidekick, but he can be tricky to keep track of, and he is fond of tank pranks! Join us for another adventure as we seek out the monster and save the museum."-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Sherlock Bones (Treml) volume 1
Publisher
Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hi there, I'm Sherlock Bones. Who is Sherlock Bones, you ask? Well, I dont like to brag, but my trusty side-kick Watts says Im the greatest detective in our whole museum. Dont you, Watts? Watts . . . ? Sherlock Bones and his sidekick, a stuffed parrot named Watts, live in a natural history museum. So when the precious Royal Blue Diamond goes missing, they are first on the case. What they dont expect is Grace, a silly, new-to-the-scene raccoon who...
14) Egypt's fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby -- the highlight of the museum's...
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