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1) Imagine!
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"When a boy visits an art museum and one of the paintings comes to life, he has an afternoon of adventure and discovery [that] changes how he sees the world ever after"--
5) Explorers
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"When a family goes to a local museum, a boy notices a homeless man sitting outside, making brightly colored origami birds. He convinces his dad to buy a bird the man makes just for him. Once inside the museum, his little sister takes the bird and launches it into the air. Is it lost? Soon another boy helps him look, and the paper bird brings two families--and two new friends--together" --
7) The doldrums
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An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his over-protective 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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Fergus, the pet mouse in Miss Maxwell's room, stows away on the class trip to the museum and meets a new buddy named Zeke. Fergus and Zeke are having so much fun exploring the museum together that Fergus almost misses the bus. This time Zeke stows away with Fergus and Miss Maxwell's class gets a new pet.
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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.
10) 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.
11) 2095
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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.
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Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl, is still grieving her mother when her father takes a job in a museum located in a city where it never stops snowing. Ophelia is forced to suspend her disbelief in things non-scientific when she finds a boy locked in the museum where her father works. The boy, a prisoner of the Snow Queen, asks Ophelia to help him complete an age-old mission and save the world.
15) Time flies
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A wordless tale in which a bird flying around the dinosaur exhibit in a natural history museum has an unsettling experience when the dinosaur seems to come alive and view the bird as a potential meal.
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Mysteries for Kids
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When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run "from" somewhere, she wants to run "to" somewhere -- to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, preferably, elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing that her younger brother Jamie has money and thus can help her with a serious cash-flow problem, she invites him along. Once settled into the museum, Claudia and Jamie find...
18) Mystery museum
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On a field trip to the museum, Jess brings a camera that goes missing and assumes that someone must have taken it.
19) Otter in space
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After visiting an outer space exhibit in a museum, Otter and Teddy decide they need a moon rock, and the only way to get one is to build a space ship and go get one.
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The famous Prince Nogouda pays a visit to New Mouse City and ace reporter Geronimo Stilton has an exclusive interview. Meanwhile, at the Mouse Museum, the rare breed of Shufongfong lizards have been kidnapped! Could like Prince and his kingdom in the Bandel jungle have anything to do with this? Geronimo, Thea, Trap, and Benjamin are on the case!