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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.
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James "Gum" Shoo and his friends are on a trip to the River City Natural History Museum, where they discover that a small dinosaur model and some chickens have both gone missing--and the four sixth-grade detectives promptly set out to discover who is behind the theft.
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Someone is messing with the Museum of Natural History, mixing human models from the new Pleistocene Megafauna with the dinosaur exhibits, and Wilson Kipper, whose mother works in the museum as a paleontologist, and his friends are determined to find out who is responsible for the anti-science vandalism--the new professor, her nasty daughter, or someone else entirely.
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What do giant squids, a possibly cursed diamond, dinosaur bones, and a man made of soap all have in common? These are some of the amazing artifacts at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Take a tour through the museum's collections. Engaging text, graphs, maps, and colorful images help readers discover the stories behind some of these treasured pieces of natural history.
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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!
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"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 hunter, tireless adventurer, and ardent conservationist. We think of him as a larger-than-life original, yet in The Naturalist, Darrin Lunde has located...
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Sherlock Bones, a frogmouth skeleton, and his trusty sidekick Watts, a stuffed parrot, live in the State Natural History Museum. When the museum's valuable Royal Blue Diamond is stolen, Sherlock and Watts set off to solve the mystery. They soon meet a friendly raccoon named Grace who keeps getting in the way. When they discover that the museum may have to close if the diamond isn't found, Sherlock and Watts must race against the clock to save their...
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A shipment of dinosaur bones meant for a new exhibit at the Capitol City Natural History Museum has disappeared, and so have the five paleontologists who were working late at the museum, including Wilson Kipper's mother--so Wilson and his museum friends set out to solve the mystery.