Bluebonnet at the Ocean Star Museum

Bluebonnet at the Ocean Star Museum
Author: Mary Brooke Casad
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781455617210

Tour the oil rig with our favorite armadillo! The latest in the adventure series finds Bluebonnet exploring the Ocean Star Museum in Galveston, Texas. To discover facts about the offshore oil system, she secretly follows a school group touring the museum. She learns about life on a drilling rig, offshore history, and rig safety through the tour guide and the knowledgeable pelican, Red.

Bluebonnet at the Ocean Star Museum

Bluebonnet at the Ocean Star Museum
Author: Mary Brooke Casad
Publisher: Bluebonnet the Armadillo
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-02-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781681793665

In this book in the Bluebonnet Series, our favorite armadillo explores the Ocean Star Museum in Galveston, Texas. On the boardwalk at the Galveston harbor, Bluebonnet meets Red, the knowledgeable brown pelican, who persuades her to follow a class on their tour of the museum. Bluebonnet secretly follows the group and learns about the offshore oil system, life on a drilling rig, and offshore oil history. Along her journey, Bluebonnet discovers that the museum itself is an old offshore rig, where people lived and drilled beneath the sea for oil. She learns that since its opening as a museum in 1997, the rig has taught kids about products made from petroleum and abandoned platforms that have become reefs. As the museum tour comes to an end, Bluebonnet hops aboard a departing shrimp boat with Red to see some offshore drilling rigs in action. After all, she is always ready for a new adventure!

Day Trips® from Houston

Day Trips® from Houston
Author: Paris Permenter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1493031449

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Houston. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Houston metro area. With full trip-planning information, Day Trips from Houston helps make the most of a brief getaway. Packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover not far from Houston, TX Complete with full trip-planning information, including information on where to eat, where to shop, and where to stop along the way. Each itinerary includes its own route map.

DAY TRIPS FROM HOUSTON: GETAWAY 2ED

DAY TRIPS FROM HOUSTON: GETAWAY 2ED
Author: Paris Permenter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0762795743

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Houston. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Houston metro area. With full trip-planning information, Day Trips from Houston helps make the most of a brief getaway.

A Parent's Guide to Houston

A Parent's Guide to Houston
Author: Barbara Burgower Hordern
Publisher: Mars Publishing (CA)
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003-04
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781931199261

Insider advice on finding the most entertaining and enriching attractions for kids in Houston, Texas. Includes information on hotels, restaurants, and shopping destinations, as well as monuments, museums, and places of historical significance, such as NASA's Mission Control Center.

Bluebonnet at the Alamo

Bluebonnet at the Alamo
Author: Mary Brooke Casad
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781455618064

In her latest Texas adventure, everyone's favorite armadillo visits San Antonio. While at the Alamo, she meets Digger Diller, whose Great Great Grand Diller was there during the famous battle. Digger Diller even has Jim Bowie's knife! Bluebonnet thinks he should donate his family treasure to the Alamo Museum so everyone can learn from it. Can Bluebonnet convince him to share?

The Night at the Museum

The Night at the Museum
Author: Milan Trenc
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2006-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1438067100

Perfect for fans of Wellie Wishers and Billie B. Brown books, The Night at the Museum is the next adventure book for Dino Riders, Jurassic fanatics, and Smithsonian superstars! The book that inspired the iconic Night at the Museum movies will bring every trip to the museum—to life! Set in New York's Museum of Natural History, Larry, the museum nightguard, soon finds things aren't what they seem. Strange magic has led to the most amazing vanishing act in the museum's rich history—the entire dinosaur collection has disappeared! Could they have come...to life? The Night at the Museum masterfully blends mystery and comedy, making it the perfect museum book for teachers and educators. Kids of all ages will love the author's original illustrations on every page. Don't wait to discover what dinosaurs do after dark with The Night at the Museum!

Waterless Mountain

Waterless Mountain
Author: Laura Adams Armer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0486492885

Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.