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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation turns a domestic tragedy into...
Author
Language
English
Description
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
4) Ulysses
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Series
Language
English
Description
Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey...
Author
Language
English
Description
Louis Comfort Tiffany staffs his studio with female artisans--a decision that protects him from strikes by the all-male union--but refuses to employ women who are married. Lucky for him, Clara Driscoll's romantic misfortunes insure that she can continue to craft the jewel-toned glass windows and lamps that catch both her eye and her imagination.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
11) Little Dog
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lonely stray dog befriends a struggling artist, transforming her art and both their lives.
12) Art dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Mona Woofa is stolen from the Dogopolis Museum of Art, a mysterious character who calls himself Art Dog tracks down and captures the thieves.
13) Sandcastles
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Painter and art instructor Honor Dillon has made a peaceful life for herself with her three daughters, until the wedding of her eldest daughter, Regis, brings her former love--and Regis' father--John back into her life from his self-imposed exile.
15) Northwood
Author
Language
English
Description
Part fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance. The man is violent, their affair even more so. As she struggles to free herself, she questions the difference between desire and obsession, and the brutal...
16) Stars of fortune
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Series
Language
English
Description
"To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Her visions lead her to the Greek island of Corfu, where five...
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Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
British fourteen-year-old Max Cassidy calls on his skills and training as a professional escape artist when he attempts to clear his mother of murdering his father, who disappeared two years earlier in the Central American country of Santo Domingo.
19) Draw me a star
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.
20) River boy
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
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