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Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
370L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations
Language
Español
Description
Yasmin's painting for the art contest is due Friday, but she has lots of excuses for putting it off. She doesn't know what to paint, she doesn't think she's any good, and painting is messy. Turns out a mess is just what Yasmin needs for inspiration! Fully translated Spanish text. Yasmin tiene que terminar su cuadro para el concurso de arte del viernes, pero encuentra todo tipo de excusas para no hacerlo. No sabe qué pintar, cree que no sabe pintar...
63) Pure Red
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (234 pages)
Language
English
Description
I, Cassia Bernard, do solemnly swear to find pure red-my passion-this summer. Dad's passion is art. When he's painting, no one can reach him, not even me. My mom's passion was the ocean. She said the ocean allows you to see whatever you want to see. That was one of the last things she ever said to me... Sometimes what your heart desires isn't what it needs. Over the course of a hot Miami summer, sixteen-year-old Cassia discovers that sometimes it...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Myra has a gift many would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control: she's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra if she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor's dead son. Once she arrives at the legendary stone...
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
10 books (241, 20 pages) in a bag ; 38 x 33 cm + 1 folder (30 x 24 cm).
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with sign out sheets, bookmarks and an informational sheet that includes a summary, awards list, author's biography, illustrator's biography, discussion questions and a list of web sites.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 400L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uni, everyone's favorite unicorn is finding all the colors of spring in the Uni-verse. Uni's magical horn taps the prettiest flowers in the Land of the Unicorns, and turns a drab world into a brilliant burst of color.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Today is the day of the art show, but Mrs. Brown doesn't know what to paint! Can Paddington help Mrs. Brown make the perfect painting?"--publisher
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Following her mother's tragic death, seventeen-year-old Sarah takes on the role of caretaker to her grieving father and younger brother, which leaves little time and emotional energy for a relationship, but when a school project helps her rediscover her love of art, her perspective shifts.
69) The perfect spot
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
300L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With colorful illustrations and carefully leveled text, this story about a young girl looking for the perfect spot to do her painting will have young readers and artists turning pages"--
Author
Lexile measure
690L
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
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
65 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Violet the painting fairy needs Rachel and Kirsty's help to find her missing paintbrush in order to help keep Rainspell Island's Arts and Crafts Week on schedule.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name painting the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery...
Author
Series
Joe Sherlock volume 5
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a valuable painting is stolen from a local art museum, fourth-grade super-sleuth Joe Sherlock investigates, aided by his sister, Hailey.
74) Wolfwood
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Indigo finds a series of paintings made by her mother that could be the solution to their financial insecurities; however, her mother refuses to revive the series, so Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself and falls into the paintings' dangerous world which blurs fantasy and reality.
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 19 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the sweet story of a painter (Bob Ross) who helps his squirrel friend, Peapod, find the perfect home to live in. Bob paints an actual Ross painting, "Meadow Lake," in this charming tale about helping friends and embracing the serenity of life. Bob, along with Peapod, go through the various steps and processes to painting, including praising those "happy little accidents" that happen along the way."--Amazon.
76) Glow
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When thrift-store aficionado Julie discovers a series of antique paintings with hidden glowing images that are only visible in the dark, she uncovers a century-old romance and the haunting true story of the Radium Girls"--Provided by publisher.
77) The sign painter
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amy Dowell had always considered herself a very good mother. But when she loses her husband to illness and her home to debt, she finds herself and her young daughter Kimberly living on the streets as she struggles to find a job that will get them back on their feet again. When Amy meets Lucy Watts, the pastor in charge of the church program that fed Amy and Kimberly their latest meal, Lucy sets them up in temporary housing and gives her a lead on...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
While a little girl who loves red--and loves to dilly-dally--stops to paint a picture on the way to visit her grandmother, her dog Rufus meets a wolf and leads him directly to Granny's house.
Author
Language
English
Description
After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. There she meets new friends, becomes enraptured by a series of paintings that tell the story of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, and falls in love for the first time in her life.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Language
English
Description
"For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and Alexis Verde, daughter of a notorious art thief, discover...