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1) Inkling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
4) Pet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
7) Mousterpiece
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Janson the mouse, who lives in a museum, becomes an acclaimed artist by copying the styles of paintings she sees there. Includes notes about the artists and works featured
Author
Series
MAX volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Middle school retrieval specialist Jeremy Wilderson again must work with his archrival, Becca Mills, when someone sabotages the Summer Art Show where Case's work is being exhibited
12) 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.--
13) 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.--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-graders Jin, Alexandra, and Elvin come from very different backgrounds and circumstances, but they all live in Harlem, and when Elvin's grandfather is attacked they band together to find out who is responsible--and the search leads them to an enigmatic artist whose missing masterpieces are worth a fortune, and into conflict with an ambitious politician who wants to turn Harlem into an historic amusement park
15) Cézanne's parrot
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Paul Cézanne longs to be a great painter, but even with the advice of his friends Monet and Pissarro, no one, not even his parrot, is impressed with his work
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 13
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the help of Hattie Frog and Owen Snake, Sophie Mouse puts together the first Silverlake Art Show but when the big night comes, she finds she is not the star of the show
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Imagines a day in the boyhood of Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi, while wandering through an outdoor market, through the forest, and then by the ocean, seeing things Isamu sees through the eyes of a young artist
Author
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt story about self-discovery, Miles Morales, aka Spider-Man, explores what it means to be an artist, a superhero and himself as he befriends a fellow artist who helps him learn more about his Puerto Rican heritage and the importance of his neighborhood
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group
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