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Reading recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks across all reading levels.
1) The museum
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A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
3) The Doldrums
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Doldrums volume 1
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An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
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My weird school volume 21
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A school trip to the natural history museum goes awry when the curator, Ms. Krup, loses her giant cockroach and A.J. and his friends decide to explore the museum in the middle of the night.
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Ghost buddy volume 4
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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.
8) Museum trip
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In this wordless picture book, a boy imagines himself inside some of the exhibits when he goes on a field trip to a museum.
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Babar (Brunhoff) volume 65
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Harry N. Abrams
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2003
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Babar and Celeste convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants.
10) Let's play dead
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2011
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When Nell Pratt is invited to the beloved Philadelphia children's museum, Let's Play, for a sneak preview of a newly installed exhibit based on the Harriet the Hedgehog book series, she's in for quite a shock. In the middle of the visit, one of the installers gets a severe jolt from working on an electronically animated forest creature. He recovers, but when a second man gets zapped - this time fatally - it sparks a homicide investigation, with Nell...
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Curiosity House volume 1
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Strange magic
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Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run.
Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there's curator Sam Stone,...
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Oaks sisters volume 1
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"Millie has never taken the expected path. Her childhood love for bugs and science led her to entomology, and her role as a curator, inspiring museum visitors every day. It's her dream to run her own department--so when a rare director position opens, she is determined nothing will distract her from her goal. Especially not Finn, her grumpy coworker with his permanent scowl, electric blue eyes, and endless supply of astronomy ties. Not that she's...
16) Mossy
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G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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[2012]
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Mossy, a turtle with a garden growing on her shell, is taken from her home and new friend to become an exhibit in a museum, until the director's niece, Tory, notices how sad Mossy is and helps arrange for her to go home.
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"Four years after her husband Richard's death, Cate Morris is let go from her teaching job and unable to pay rent on the London flat she shares with her son, Leo. With nowhere else to turn, they pack up and venture to Richard's ancestral Victorian museum in the small town of Crouch-on-Sea. Despite growing pains and a grouchy caretaker, Cate begins to fall in love with the quirky taxidermy exhibits and sprawling grounds, and she makes it her mission...
18) Why not tonight
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Happily Inc volume 3
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"Natalie Kaleta will do anything for the artists at her gallery, including risk life, limb and the effect of humidity on her naturally curly hair. Braving a downpour to check on reclusive Ronan Mitchell, Natalie gets stranded by a mudslide at his mountain home, where the brooding glass artist reveals his playful side, sending her inconvenient crush from under-the-radar to over-the-top. After a secret tore apart his family and made him question his...
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How to catch-- volume 14
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It's prehistoric pandemonium as the Catch Club Kids search for an escaped dinosaur that is spreading love and kindness, in this sweet story that combines adventure with STEAM concepts.