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Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a village in Thailand where everyone makes umbrellas, young Noot dreams of painting the most beautiful one and leading the annual parade as Umbrella Queen, but her unconventional designs displease her parents.
43) Painted dreams
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because her Haitian family is too poor to be able to buy paints for her, eight-year-old Ti Marie finds her own way to create pictures that make the heart sing.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alternating between his perilous hunt for the Lost Van Gogh, and the glamorous life John Decker remade for himself after serving time for forgery, this intricately woven historical thriller follows Luke Perrone as he unearths several mysteries best left untouched as he gets closer to the truth"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge."--Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international...
46) One boy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A boy creates ten paintings in this counting book that also explores the relationship of words within words.
Author
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Portrait painter Iris Grey arrives at Pitfeldy Castle in the Scottish Highlands, at the request of Baron Jock MacKinnon. Jock has commissioned Iris to paint a portrait of his fiancé, an American socialite Kathy Miller, ahead of their New Year wedding. Kathy invites Iris into her confidence, as she's received a series of threatening notes asking her to call off the wedding. Iris begins to investigate, and when a body is discovered in the grounds...
Author
Series
Sisters of the salt volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the youngest Thaumas sister, Verity, leaves Salann for the lush Bloem on a painting commission, she quickly discovers that the intriguing Laurent family isn't as perfect as they appear"--
52) Painting time
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Claudia Miravista loves art, but socially she is always the odd girl out--but on a trip to the local art museum she sees a boy in a painting, who moves from painting to painting, and soon she embarks on an adventure behind the canvas, determined to free the boy Pim from the artistic prison he has endured for over three hundred years.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Late in the Cold War, a young woman escapes from Communist Hungary, vanishing into the night with a priceless painting and a baby girl--setting events in motion from a decades-old secret that will change lives for generations to come. Many years later, classical pianist Maggie O'Shea is drawn to Cornwall in search of a long-lost Van Gogh and the truth behind her husband's death. A journal from World War II Paris holds many of the answers, but only...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Princess Arabella thinks her room is boring. So she decides she's going to do something about that?all by herself. She mixes up some paint and in no time at all her room looks fabulous! Mylo Freeman grew up in The Hague and lives in Amsterdam. She has been a full-time writer-illustrator since 1993 and has published over fifty picture books. Her debut book Potty! was awarded the Kiek Book Prize and has been translated into many languages.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2009, eighty-five-year-old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson Tommy is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high school classrooms. The ensuing battle to reinstate the teachers raises the specter of Ludka's World War II past--a past she's spent a lifetime trying to forget ... As Ludka's influential family defends Tommy under increasingly vicious...
57) Waking the Dead
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Danielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case of a painting reputed to come to life--and to bring death. They begin to make connections between that summer in Switzerland and this spring in Louisiana. Danni, the owner of an eccentric antiques shop, and Quinn, a private detective, have discovered that they have separate but complementary talents when it comes to investigating unusual situations....
58) The artist
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A brave little artist goes on an epic adventure to share her creativity with the world, adding color and life to a drab, gray city"--
59) Silent thunder
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Silent thunder: Best selling author Iris Johansen collaborates with her son Roy for the first time. When her brother Connor is murdered aboard a Russian submarine being prepared for display in a U.S. museum, marine architect Hannah Bryson must figure out who killed him and why, before she meets the same fate.
Eight days to live: Eve Duncan's adopted daughter Jane has been targeted by a mysterious cult who has decided that she has only eight days...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ranging from the gritty reality of the Australian goldfields to the grand institutions of Sydney, the bucolic English countryside to the charm of Maitland Town, this compelling historical mystery in the company of an eccentric and original heroine is rich with atmosphere and detail"--