Librosaurio

Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.

Several children ignore the rule against touching the exhibits while visiting a museum of horrors, and when they begin to have symptoms of an awful curse, the children know that they must find a cure before it is too late.