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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
2) Unfadeable
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Series
The tapestry volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in "mystics and combat" in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Julien falls in love with the muse, Clio, as he tries to save her and the Musée D'Orsay's collection of Impressionist art after learning the paintings are reacting to a curse set by Renoir that trapped Clio in his painting.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh"--
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Heiligman draws on the letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime to weave a tale of two lives intertwined as Theo supported Vincent's struggles to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Lamed 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old prankster Maxwell Connors tries to maintain his identity in a mid-twenty-first century world where the children of his elite corporate town of New Middletown are treated with a drug to turn them into obedient, well-mannered citizens.
Author
Series
Flyy girls novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem highschoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Lux Lawson is on a spree. Ever since her dad left, she's been kicked out of every school that would take her, and this is her last chance: Harlem's Augusta Savage School of the Arts. If this doesn't work, Lux...
13) Things hoped for
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery of her grandfather's sudden disappearance.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the Excellence in the Arts book, students learn about the creative Asian men and women who have contributed so much to the artistic fabric of America-from poetry to painting to writing to music. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quigley and her best friend Anne have big plans to prepare for prom, including working to earn money for dresses, but both girls seem to have chosen their prospective dates badly as Anne's family crisis affects them all.
16) Jazz off-key
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jazz is thrilled at the chance for her own one-woman art show during Big Lake's Spring Fling celebration, but when her younger sister ruins the paintings she had planned to display Jazz rages at family and friends while wishing she could find peace through Jesus.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
T-- lives in a precarious world with very few friends, abused by a trio of bullies he calls Joined at the Hip, and his main refuge is the camera which he uses to capture the unique way he sees the world--but when he photographs the boys attacking a homeless woman the images could lead to even more trouble, especially when the bullies threaten to hurt his only friend, Sean, if he trys to use the pictures against them.
18) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Rumplestiltskin story where a king orders a poor miller's daughter to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, so in her desperation she unwittingly summons a mysterious boy, soon discovering other secrets in the castle, including an ancient curse that must be broken.
When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim...
19) Tagged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 280L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Liam, a fourteen-year-old graffiti artist, can't keep his grades up and is threatened by a local gang in the projects of Minneapolis, his mother sends him to Lake Michigan for the summer.
20) Just Jazz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Artistic Jasmine "Jazz" Fletcher tries to find a way to convince her skeptical parents that art for her is not just an expensive hobby but an important part of life.
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