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1) The dot
Author
Series
Creatrilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case of a painting reputed to come to life--and to bring death. They begin to make connections between that summer in Switzerland and this spring in Louisiana. Danni, the owner of an eccentric antiques shop, and Quinn, a private detective, have discovered that they have separate but complementary talents when it comes to investigating unusual situations....
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 5
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 20
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
While attending a fancy party hosted by Duchess Strickland, a wealthy philanthropist who owns a priceless art collection, teenaged Nancy Drew finds a new mystery to investigate when the goddess statue disappears.
Author
Series
Publisher
Le French Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the merciless microcosm of Paris art auctions and galleries, some people collect art, while others collect trouble. Marion Spicer spends her days examining auction catalogues and searching for stolen works of art. She is a top-notch investigator when it comes to eighteenth-century art. But for her it's just a job and her life is well ordered. All this changes when she inherits a huge and very prestigious collection of pre-Columbian art from a...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grade sleuth Sammy Keyes investigates mysterious happenings at a local art gallery.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Without the means to support herself after her father dies, Carrington Brouwer is given the opportunity to use her artistic talent at her friend's father's carousel factory. But the men at the factory are not happy that a woman has been given the desirable job of painting the elaborately carved horses. When mishaps occur at the factory, and jewelry disappears from the owner's home, accusations swirl. Is the handsome young factory manager truly Carrie's...
11) Girl reading
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A kaleidoscopic tale follows the experiences of seven women models from different historical periods, the artists for whom they sit, the factors that shape the creations of their portraits, and the ties that connect them to each other.
Author
Publisher
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When office drone Ray Eccles is struck on the head by a dying seagull on a hot summer beach, he awakens compelled to obsessively paint the unknown woman he saw at the moment of impact. Discovered by an eccentric couple, Ray's paintings light the art world on fire. Meanwhile, the unknown woman, observing from afar, wonders if this stranger is the only person who has ever really seen her.
13) Hidden pictures
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory...
15) Sacred stone
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Greenland an artifact is unearthed, a 50,000 year old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. Two oposing terrorist groups are searching for the stone. Caught between two militant factions, Juan Cabrillo and his mercenaries must fight to protect the Sacred Stone and prevent the outbreak of World War III.
16) Drawn together
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather summons them to his mansion at Owls Point. None of them have visited the family estate since they were children, when a prized painting...
18) Just add glitter
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text encourage the reader to add glitter to everything in sight, until even what should really sparkle is obscured.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Composer Arky Levin is at a creative dead end when, entirely by chance, he stumbles across an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Based on a real piece of performance art that took place in 2010, the unusual instillation moves almost all who participate in it. Arky finds himself drawn to the exhibit, returning day after day - and as he does, he begins to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other's deathbed for unknown reasons by way of a "relatively short" nine page email, spends his flight to Berlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastian's Abyss, the work that established both men as important art critics and also destroyed their...