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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and work of six artists of the Italian Renaissance whose works represent important innovations and achievements in painting, sculpture, and architecture. Included are Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Four centuries in the future, the world is rich, nanomachines watch the health of the wealthy and manufacture food and gadgets for everybody but no Utopia, as we see in the lives of five very different people." -- Jacket.
10) The plain Janes
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Katie copes with her grief by working in the garden of an old estate, where she becomes intrigued by the story of a reclusive millionaire, while her father, an art restorer, manages in his own way to come to terms with the death of his wife.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pat rents a room in Edinburgh, she acquires some interesting neighbors--including a pushy Stockbridge mother and her talented, sax-playing, five-year-old son. Her job at an art gallery hardly keeps her busy until she suspects one painting in the collection may be an undiscovered work by a Scottish master.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A poor art student in New York City discovers a duffel bag full of diamonds in the chaos during an attack at Grand Central Station and is pursued by the Ghost, an assassin who had murdered the bag's owner.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. And he has a secret of his own"--
Since her sister's death, Petula de Wilde sees danger in everything. A mandatory art therapy class with a groups of teenage misfits is the worst part of each week. She wants nothing to do with them-- especially Jacob and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn't the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family's Sussex estate is palpably tense. On top of everything else, Holmes and Watson could be becoming more than friends but still, the darkness in Charlotte's past is a wall between them.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations, over 160 images, are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's edition. A mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries, unveiled at last. While in Paris on business, Harvard...
19) MetaMaus
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals. In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize-winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago. He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes -- Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics? -- and gives us a new...
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