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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful and evocative look at identity and creativity, The Gallery of Unfinished Girls is a stunning debut in magical realism. Perfect for fans of The Walls Around Us and Bone Gap. Mercedes Moreno is an artist. At least, she thinks she could be, even though she hasn't been able to paint anything worthwhile in the past year. Her lack of inspiration might be because her abuela is in a coma. Or the fact that Mercedes is in love with her best friend,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the urging of a very artistic new girl who encourages Claudia to practice art instead of caring for kids, Claudia considers leaving the club and the other members give her an ultimatum.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria...
45) Bridget's beret
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bridget loses the beret that provides her with artistic inspiration like other great artists, she thinks she will never be able to draw again. Includes facts about famous artists and reproductions of some of their paintings.
46) Art & Max
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.
47) Draw me a star
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Neruda Diaz, influenced by his namesake, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, yearns to fall in love but has yet to find the right girl.
50) All I see
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child paints with an artist friend who sees and paints only whales.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Outrageous!" the judges cried. "Ridiculous!" Who would dare enter a portrait of a duck in the Grand Contest of Art? But when Felix Clouseau's painting quacks, he is hailed as a genius. Suddenly everyone wants a Clousseau masterpiece, and the unknown painter becomes an overnight sensation. That's when the trouble begins.
52) Time to make art
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a little girl asks meaningful questions about creating art, her questions are answered by a diverse group of artists throughout time and history. This inspiring picture book about making art doubles as an introduction to the multifaceted and global history of art. Making both art history and art creation accessible to all, "Time to Make Art" nourishes creativity, encouraging young readers to see the artist in themselves.
53) Rock what ya got
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An artist, displeased with her drawing, tries to make it better but the figure, Viva, comes to life and proclaims that she is happy just as she is.--
54) Violets are blue
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Wren, who is learning special effects makeup, is thrilled to be makeup artist for her new school's production of Wicked, but her parents' divorce is seriously affecting her mother.
55) Artist Ted
Author
Series
Ted books (Andrea Beaty) volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ted decides that his bedroom, as well as his school, needs the touch of an artist and when he cannot fine one, he becomes one for the day, to the dismay of his mother, principal, and a new classmate, Pierre.
56) Anywhere artist
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A young artist explains how she uses the materials provided by nature, as well as her imagination and creativity, to fuel her art.
Author
Series
Nest for Celeste volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home, becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans, Louisiana, plantation in 1821.
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