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Books with author Timothy Bush

  • Capital Mysteries #3: The Skeleton in the Smithsonian

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Aug. 26, 2003)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the third book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.— KC and her friend Marshall explore the Smithsonian, the most famous museum in the world. The money to build it was given to Washington, D.C., over a hundred years ago, but now one man is claiming that money should be his. KC and Marshall think they can prove Mr. Fisher is a big liar. But if they are wrong, the Smithsonian will belong to him! Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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  • Capital Mysteries #3: The Skeleton in the Smithsonian

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    language (Random House Books for Young Readers, Oct. 5, 2009)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the third book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.— KC and her friend Marshall explore the Smithsonian, the most famous museum in the world. The money to build it was given to Washington, D.C., over a hundred years ago, but now one man is claiming that money should be his. KC and Marshall think they can prove Mr. Fisher is a big liar. But if they are wrong, the Smithsonian will belong to him! Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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  • Capital Mysteries #4: A Spy in the White House

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Aug. 24, 2004)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the fourth book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.—KC's mom is getting married...to the President of the United States! KC wants the day to be perfect, but someone keeps leaking wedding secrets. They newspapers have even printed where the president and his bride are going on their honeymoon. To save the wedding, KC and Marshall have to track down the spy in the White House! Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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  • Capital Mysteries #5: Who Broke Lincoln's Thumb?

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Dec. 27, 2005)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the fifth book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.—it's party time in Washington, D.C.! The president is planning a celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in honor of the man who sculpted the famous statue of Abraham Lincoln. But KC and Marshall notice one small problem - one of the thumbs has broken off the statue! Has someone stolen Lincoln's thumb? Can KC and Marshall find it before the celebration? Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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  • Capital Mysteries #7: Trouble at the Treasury

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Dec. 26, 2006)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the seventh book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.—KC and Marshall are thrilled to take a tour of the United States Treasury where stacks and stacks of money zip off the presses in the printing and engraving building, millions of dollars a day. But the friends find that a bundle of bills is missing. That's a hundred thousand dollars - gone! How did the thief slip the money out past cameras, guards, and locked doors? KC has a suspect. She has a clue. Now she just needs to figure out how in the world it was done!Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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  • Capital Mysteries #4: A Spy in the White House

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    eBook (Random House Books for Young Readers, Sept. 9, 2009)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the fourth book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.—KC's mom is getting married...to the President of the United States! KC wants the day to be perfect, but someone keeps leaking wedding secrets. They newspapers have even printed where the president and his bride are going on their honeymoon. To save the wedding, KC and Marshall have to track down the spy in the White House! Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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  • Capital Mysteries #5: Who Broke Lincoln's Thumb?

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    eBook (Random House Books for Young Readers, Aug. 31, 2009)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the fifth book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.—it's party time in Washington, D.C.! The president is planning a celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in honor of the man who sculpted the famous statue of Abraham Lincoln. But KC and Marshall notice one small problem - one of the thumbs has broken off the statue! Has someone stolen Lincoln's thumb? Can KC and Marshall find it before the celebration? Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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  • Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter

    Timothy Bush

    Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers, Nov. 17, 1998)
    "Drawing or writing, Bush's pen is loaded with wit." Welcome to the spaceship home of Benjamin McFadden--where tennis is played in spacesuits, books are read in zero gravity, and robot babysitters have eight arms and are preprogrammed to send you to bed at 8:00 p.m. sharp. But the night his parents go to the Rings of Saturn Preservation Dance, Benjamin McFadden isn't ready for bed. Taking matters into his own hands, he reprograms Babysitter, and his own private party is soon underway--until Benjamin is finally ready to rest. The only hitch? Now Babysitter wants to party, and Benjamin must stop the festivities before his parents get home. Timothy Bush takes fun and multiplies it by a million in his most far-out book to date, filling it with fanciful illustrations and a story meant especially for fans who thirst for adventure!
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  • Capital Mysteries #6: Fireworks at the FBI

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, May 23, 2006)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the sixth book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.— KC gets a front row seat to the Fourth of July festivities at the White House. What better place to be on the fourth than Washington, D.C.? But KC spots fireworks coming from a very peculiar place - the FBI building! Although the president thinks it was an accident, KC and her friend Marshall know better. They are sure those fireworks were covering up a clever crime!Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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  • Capital Mysteries #10: The Election-Day Disaster

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Aug. 12, 2008)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the tenth book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.—KC and her best friend, Marshall, wake up to a trick not a treat the morning after the White House Halloween costume party. With the presidential election only a week away, someone has posted damaging photos of the president on the Internet, photos that were digitally doctored! Will they ruin President Thornton's chances for a second term? Or can KC and Marshall rescue the election? Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
  • James in the House of Aunt Prudence

    Timothy Bush

    Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers, Aug. 10, 1993)
    While visiting his great-aunt, a young boy spends the afternoon being chased through the house by an assortment of creatures led by the Mouse King
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  • Capital Mysteries #9: A Thief at the National Zoo

    Ron Roy, Timothy Bush

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Dec. 26, 2007)
    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for President's Day! In the ninth book of the Capital Mysteries—an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from Washington, D.C.—KC and Marshall are helping out with the baby tigers at the National Zoo when they meet a new friend, Sunwoo, from China. Sunwoo's father is lending the zoo a precious jewel caled the Tiger's Eye to raise money for endangered tigers. But during the zoo's big party, the lights suddenly go out. And when they're turned back on, the jewel is missing! Who stole the Tiger's Eye? And how did someone sneak it out of a room with no windows and a guarded door? Each book highlights one of the famous museums, buildings, or monuments from the Washington area and includes a map and a two-page fun fact spread with photographs. Parents, teachers, and librarians agree that these highly collectible chapter books are perfect for emerging readers and any kid who love mysteries!
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