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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"It's been thirteen years since Kate Callahan's husband committed suicide after being arrested for murdering Police Chief Sean Blaylock's wife. It's a small town and memories are long, but they've all tried to put the tragedy behind them, especially Kate and Sean. But it's all brought up again when the town's quaint tradition of creating a time capsule every fifty years reveals a macabre set of predictions dating back to days before the murder/suicide....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Olivia is inspired to save her memories in a time capsule. She is also determined to find the time capsule that Grandma made when she was a little girl. After all, she needs to get ideas about what to put in her own! What will Olivia want to remember when she's all grown up?
5) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
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In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home, with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items in the time capsule are murdered. Besides...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically probability. It's how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of being born were 1 in 5.5 trillion, and that the odds of her having the best family ever were even lower. Yet somehow, Kemi lucked out. But everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky, casting a purple haze over her world. AMPLUS-68 has an 84.7% chance...
9) Scavenger
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Frank Balenger must play by the rules of a god-like game master, along with a handful of other unwilling players, to solve the puzzle of a time capsule, to save himself and the woman he loves.
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Gratuity "Tip" Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The true meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, and she's not sure where to beging: when her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended to Earth and the aliens - called the Boov - abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth...
11) The red tin box
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
On her eighth birthday Maude buries a red tin box with some special treasures at the foot of a flowering dogwood tree and makes a promise to herself--and many years later she and her granddaughter travel to her childhood home to dig it up and pass it on.
12) Treasure hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Billie and the Secret Mystery Club have been given a very important mystery to solve for the principal at school. A long time ago, a time capsule was hidden in the school somewhere, and it's up to the SMC to find it!"--From the publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
14) Knowing
Description
In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the...
15) Shooting Star
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Wheelchair-bound Stella can secretly fly but soon after becoming a superhero, she faces an escaped prisoner and is unable to change into her costume without revealing her true identity.
16) Knowing
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the...
Author
Series
Adventures of Benny and Watch volume 7
Pub. Date
copyright 2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Benny decides to dig a hole in the back yard, Grandfather gives him an old map that leads to a special discovery.
20) Crossroads
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
On the night of their senior prom, Lucy and her once-close childhood friends -- Kit and Mimi -- reunite to dig up a time capsule they buried together as little girls. Mimi wants to make good on her childhood dreams; leaving their small town for fame and fortune in Los Angeles. Though Lucy and Kit are reluctant to join her, they decide to tag along, agreeing to be chauffeured by Mimi's friend, Ben. As they trek across the country, plagued by car problems,...