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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Michael, to whom Liz Buxbaum gave her heart long ago, has returned but to get his attention and, perhaps, a prom date she must scheme with her nemesis Wes, her next-door neighbor.
Liz Buxbaum's crush Michael never really saw her before he moved away. Now he is back in town, and Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar, and maybe snag him as a prom date. Attractive next-door neighbor Wes Bennet might seem like a prime candidate for romantic...
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English
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"I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman's The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of her body...
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Through Edgar Degas's beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his artwork, Degas captures every moment, from the relentless hours of practice to the glamour of appearing on stage, revealing a dancer's journey from novice to...
8) French braid
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English
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The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping...
9) Shadow tag
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Chronciles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
A2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Drippy and Sticky the house painters have come to paint the Busytown fire station. But with Smokey and the other brave firefighters rushing in and out to rescue people, there are bound to be a few wet-paint mishaps!
12) Elsey come home
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Elsey's role as painter, mother and wife have lead her to descend into desperate unhappiness. Her husband Lukas urges her to find herself in a weeklong mountain retreat. There she meets a group of men and women who will forever alter the way she understands herself.
13) Doodler doodling
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Teachers teach, flyers fly, painters paint, climbers climb--and teachers fly, climbers paint ....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
19) Vincent van Gogh
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Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Briefly recounts the Dutch painter's life and work.
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