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Language
English
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"Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy ... Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Georgia finds a secret sketch her late father--a famed artist--left behind, the discovery leads her down a path that may reshape everything holding her family and friends together. Caroline Gertler's debut is a story about friendship, family, grief, and creativity.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictional biography of James Castle, a deaf, autistic artist whose drawings hang in major museums throughout the world.
6) Art & Max
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
At a medieval monastery, orphaned Simon, who is apprenticing in illumination, dreams of the day he can create his own pictures, but finds he must first complete a strange and unusual assignment that Father Anselm has given him.
9) Bitter
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the city of Lucille. Bitter's instinct is to stay safe within the walls of Eucalyptus but her friends aren't willing to settle for a world that's so far away from what...
10) Houdini and me
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini is NOT Harry Houdini--the famous escape artist who died in 1926. But Harry DOES live in Houdini's old New York City home, and he definitely knows everything there is to know about Houdini's life. What is he supposed to do, then, when someone starts texting him claiming that they're Houdini, communicating from beyond the grave? Respond, of course.
It's hard for Harry to believe that Houdini is really contacting him,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beaked. Feathered. Monstrous. Avita was born to be a star. Her tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. She's the most lucrative circus act from Texas to Tacoma, the crown jewel of the Family Fortuna, and Avita feeds on the shrieks, the gasps, the fear. But when a handsome young artist arrives to create posters of the performers, she's appalled by his rendering of Bird Girl. Is that all he sees? A hideous monster--all...
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 13
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover/paperback edition.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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.
14) Invisible Emmie
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of two totally different girls--quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie--and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. All the crushes, humiliation, boredom, and drama of middle school are compressed into one surprising day" -- back cover.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s, and how his art, banned by the Nazi regime, inspired young Eric Carle.
16) A phở love story
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school seniors Bảo and Linh, whose feuding families own competing Vietnamese restaurants, conceal their budding romance, as well as Linh's desire to become an artist.
Author
Series
What my mother doesn't know volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser," and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard.
18) Green team!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face a team of evil robots.
19) Outside art
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pine Marten loves watching Human doing peculiar things in its log nest in the woods. One day, she notices Human putting colors on a board using a furry stick. Pine Marten learns from Chickadee that Human is actually "an artist" and is busy "making art." But what is art? Soon all of the animals in the forest are wondering: why is Human doing this? Is it a warning? Is it looking for a mate? is there any meaning at all? And if Human can make "art,"...
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