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Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Author
Series
Ellie (Mike Wu) volume 3
Formats
Description
"A panda has joined the animals, and she's a painter like Ellie! Is there room for two artists at the zoo?"--Page [2] of cover.
Author
Series
Those darn squirrels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
11) Houdini and me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.
16) Dragonfire
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Shobu accidentally ends up in the Fire Civilization, he's in for the battle of his life with dangerous dragons.
17) Sky color
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 20 x 22 cm.
Description
"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--
18) Passion blue
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire. Includes historical notes and glossary.
Author
Series
Library mouse books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Sam the library mouse and his friend Sarah leave the library and go to a museum so that Sam can make sketches in his explorer's journal. While there, they see different kinds of artwork and make friends with another artist.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Inspired by such art masters as Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, and Jackson Pollock, Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, dons her beret to create her own fabulous artwork.
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