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21) Woman on fire
Author
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge."--Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Language
English
Description
Garnering attention after painting a picture of his new pet goldfish, Pete the cat receives so many requests to make paintings for his neighbors that he devises an uproarious solution.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey's wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they've rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Language
English
Description
What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than you might ever imagine! Based on the true story of the Urban Art Trail in San Diego, California, Maybe Something Beautiful reveals how art can inspire transformation - and how even the smallest artists can accomplish something big. Pick up a paintbrush and join the celebration! --
25) Emma
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Motivated by a birthday gift, a 72-year-old woman begins to paint.
Author
Series
Little rabbit books volume 3
Publisher
Kingfisher Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The story of a rabbit's exhausting efforts to paint a picture presents the letters of the alphabet.
27) Painted dreams
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Because her Haitian family is too poor to be able to buy paints for her, eight-year-old Ti Marie finds her own way to create pictures that make the heart sing.
29) One boy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A boy creates ten paintings in this counting book that also explores the relationship of words within words.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
Kiri, a Japanese American girl who loves to draw and paint, tries to use the origami set she received for her birthday. Includes instructions for making an origami butterfly.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 700L
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.
33) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
35) Zee's way
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a store owner catches him painting graffiti on the store's wall, Zee must choose between making a statement and making art.
36) Forbidden talent
Author
Publisher
Northland Pub
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Ashkii, who lives on an Indian reservation with his grandparents, finds that his way of painting is in conflict with what his grandfather calls the "Navajo Way."
Author
Language
English
Description
"Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd,...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 450L
Language
English
Description
"Nico doesn't have to join the Army to see the world--that's what younger brother Luis tries to show by painting a mural in the neighborhood alley. But Nico is deployed and his small brother paints the world in the alleyway to hold on to him"--
39) Fool me twice
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe volume 2
Language
English
Description
Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world's most demanding, and dangerous collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe's life.
In St. Petersburg, Riley steals a Fabergé egg, but is betrayed by the pilot he hired to help him get away. Now he's chained to a rock wall on a remote island-- the prisoner of an international arms dealer who wants Rile to...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Emily thinks she's lost everything ... until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most in the world. The new novel from the author of international bestsellers The Sweetness of Forgetting and The Life Intended shows why her books are hailed as "engaging" (People), "absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews) and "enthralling" (Fresh Fiction). Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad ran out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died...
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