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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996,c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Forbidden to make images, fourteen-year-old Tao, the boy with the bad foot, yearns to be a cave painter, recording the figures of the mammals, rhinos, bison, and other animals of his prehistoric times.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thirty thousand years ago, an imaginative child sees the shapes of animals in clouds and on the walls of the cave he shares with his family, but no one else can see them until he makes the world's first drawing. Includes author's note on cave drawings.
4) Oh no! Not again!: (or how I built a time machine to save history) (or at least my history grade)
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When she does not get a perfect score on her history test, a young girl builds a time machine to remedy the situation.
8) Moon dancer
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Miranda, a nature loving, athletic fifteen-year-old, goes on a backpacking trip to look for Indian paintings in the canyons of southern Utah, where she feels a mystical connection to the women who were there before her.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 24
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Auki, a young member of the Tehuelche tribe in Patagonia, wants to prove himself as a hunter but when he sets out on his own to face the puma, he stumbles upon a sacred cave and its guardian.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soloing the detective agency when her long-term partner leaves for a new job, Aimee is hired by a mysterious elderly Russian man to protect a valuable painting that is stolen before Aimee can start her work, a situation that is complicated by the client's murder and dangerous adversaries who also seek the painting.
13) Willful behavior
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist makes a strange discovery: a subterranean Catholic chapel, hidden for centuries, holds the bones of a Neanderthal woman. In the same cavern system, elaborate primitive paintings tell the story of an immense battle between tribes of Neanderthals and monstrous shadowy figures. Who is this mysterious enemy depicted in these ancient drawings, and what do the paintings mean? Before any questions can...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have...