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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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A novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.
"[Read by Richard Armitage] The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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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 Londons 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. Alicias refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
Coming of Age Stories
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Art & Artist Fiction
Coming of Age Stories
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"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 him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
Art & Artist Fiction
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
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Through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes dazzlingly alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Wollie Shelley, a greeting card artist and small business owner, is dating forty men in sixty days as a participant in a social science research project when she stumbles over a dead body. Wollie decides to investigate the murder because she is afraid her paranoid schizophrenic brother may be involved.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Bendy fans will delight in poring over the memoir of his ingenious creator, Joey Drew. From humble beginnings to his meteoric rise as the force behind his eponymous studio, Mr. Drew offers a behind the scenes peek at his many animation innovations, such as Sillivision, his 'Rules to Animate By,' and course his unique approach to franchising"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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A beautiful and evocative look at identity and creativity, The Gallery of Unfinished Girls is a stunning debut in magical realism. Perfect for fans of The Walls Around Us and Bone Gap. Mercedes Moreno is an artist. At least, she thinks she could be, even though she hasn't been able to paint anything worthwhile in the past year. Her lack of inspiration might be because her abuela is in a coma. Or the fact that Mercedes is in love with her best friend,...
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Describes the arduous training and difficult day-to-day working lives of painters in Florence during the Renaissance and discusses how their changing approach to the art they created elevated their standing and influence in Florentine society.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month for Teens
All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Art & Artists in Teen Fiction
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All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Art & Artists in Teen Fiction
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After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Chronciles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.
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Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Susan Wittig Albert is the best-selling author of the China Bayles mysteries. In this cozy, she fictionalizes the adventures of acclaimed author Beatrix Potter. It's 1905, and to recover from the loss of her fiancE, Potter moves into a small farmhouse in Sawrey. Populated by colorful characters, both human and critter, her new life is full of promise. That is, until a villager dies, and murder is suspected. Now it's up to this amateur sleuth to find...
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
An alienated, aspiring young painter who attends high school at a boarding school for the arts discovers that being true to himself means opening the door to both pain and pleasure.
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