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1) The painting
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. She secretly wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's bound for Europe. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the box from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolor of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals the painting and hides it in his room....
2) Cambridge
Author
Language
English
Description
Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
4) Seen Art?
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While looking for his friend Art, a boy wanders through the Museum of Modern Art and is amazed by what he discovers there.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a little girl asks meaningful questions about creating art, her questions are answered by a diverse group of artists throughout time and history. This inspiring picture book about making art doubles as an introduction to the multifaceted and global history of art. Making both art history and art creation accessible to all, "Time to Make Art" nourishes creativity, encouraging young readers to see the artist in themselves.
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe is devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves with a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie leaps through the frames of five famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne! Katie tries to pick the sunflower seeds from famous the Vincent Van Gogh painting, Sunflowers, but when the vase tips over, the flowers go everywhere. Mimi, a little girl from a painting nearby, comes to help Katie, but when Mimi's dog Zazou comes too disaster follows!
15) Who are you?
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When the police discover that a man who has been shot has been keeping a file of her entire life, sixteen-year-old Kristi, an aspiring artist, suspects a connection with the possible theft of a painting from a museum.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A story inspired by Winslow Homer's 1879 painting "Girl and Laurel," in which a strong-willed, beautiful orphan on the run from her guardian arrives in Homer's Massachusetts hometown and befriends him while searching for details about her past.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lionel, a Jewish boy growing up in a New York City tenement, draws pictures on every scrap of paper he can find, but he does not see any value in his efforts until his teacher takes him on a streetcar journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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