My son has just started reading the Boxcar Mystery series (out loud to me, for practice). There is a recurring theme - at least in the first two - of the (four poor orphans found by a rich grandfather) kids establishing a Museum in their temporary digs, making natural history artifacts for their museum, visiting the museum founded by gramps, etc. I won't vouch for the "great literature" quotent, but I sure like these better than the goosebump books that were producing nightmares in the afore mentioned son. Diane Brenner, Anchorage Museum