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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's Spring vacation, and Fancy Nancy is feeling glum because her best friend, Bree, is out of town. Luckily, it's Nancy's mom to the rescue! when she brings home a brand-new set of glitter markers, Nancy puts her trademark flair to tres creative use and devotes herself to becoming a serious artist (or artiste, as the French say). After all, everything about being an aspiring artist is fancey, fancy, fancy- especially when inpiration strikes!
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes how Vasya Kandinsky's creative life was profoundly shaped by a neurological condition called synesthesia which caused him to experience colors as sounds and sounds as colors.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Jean-Michael Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers...
9) Art dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Flattered at first that all the other fairies and sparrow men want her to paint their portraits, Bess soon begins to feel overwhelmed and tries to find a way to return to the kind of painting she really wants to do.
12) The orange shoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delly Porter enjoys the feel of soft dirt beneath her feet as she walks to and from school, but after a classmate makes her feel ashamed of having no shoes she learns that her parents and others, too, see value in things that do not cost money.
13) Yayoi Kusama
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Get to know Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations, in this fascinating nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people "you should meet!""--
14) Micawber
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Micawber, a squirrel fascinated by art, leaves a museum with an art student and secretly uses her supplies to make his own paintings.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 92
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens investigate when an artist who is participating in an art gallery contest is accused of being an imposter.
16) Sky color
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring picture-book biography of animator Tyrus Wong, the Chinese American immigrant responsible for bringing Disney's Bambi to life. Before he became an artist named Tyrus Wong, he was a boy named Wong Geng Yeo. He traveled across a vast ocean from China to America with only a suitcase and a few papers. Not papers for drawing--which he loved to do--but immigration papers to start a new life. Once in America, Tyrus seized every opportunity...
18) Mary's art
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary paints a balloon, a tree, and a sun before realizing that her artwork is missing something very important.
19) Rock what ya got
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An artist, displeased with her drawing, tries to make it better but the figure, Viva, comes to life and proclaims that she is happy just as she is.
20) Matthew's dream
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a field trip to a museum, Matthew the mouse decides that he wants to be a painter, and he fulfills his parents' dream, though not exactly as they had expected.
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