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A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want, money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman's past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn't know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...
4) Tagged
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2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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A graffiti artist--the Wiz--takes on the city and the mayor in a fight to save the heart of the community.
5) Tagged
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
7) Banksy
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[2021]
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"The most wide-ranging and up-to-date volume available on the enigmatic and controversial graffiti artist, this deeply researched and highly personal tribute explores how Banksy continues to defy accepted wisdom about artistic success, growing only more famous and powerful even as he sticks to his anti-establishment platform and to his mission to give a voice to the voiceless"--Provided by publisher.
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2016.
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Who is Banksy? One of the most famous street artists, he has managed to keep his identity a secret ever since his work first got noticed in the 1990s. He is known for his subversive stencil art that is often political and has a dark sense of humour. Today, he is world-famous, not only for his art, but also for his exhibitions, film work and books. Find out all there is to know about the man behind the pseudonym: what we know about Banksy's childhood,...
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Amelia Bedelia and her friends are rallying their town into recycling action. But what happens when they end up with more junk than they know what to do with? Plus, there is a mysterious graffiti artist on the loose, spray-painting buildings and mailboxes. Can Amelia Bedelia figure out how to help a new friend and turn total garbage into works of art?"--Dust jacket.
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[2010]
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An eccentric French shopkeeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian segregation wall in the West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film.
11) El plan de Zee
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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Zee is torn between making a statement and making art.
12) Before I die
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Pub. Date
2013.
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When artist Candy Chang painted the side of an abandoned building with chalkboard paint and the wrote the words, "Before I die, I want to ____ ," she never expected it to become a worldwide phenomenon. Within a day of the wall's completion, however, it was covered in colorful chalk dreams as people stopped and reflected on their lives. Since then, more than two hundred walls have been created by people all over the world. This book is a celebration...
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Series
Duplexity volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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In a parallel universe, the classic bad boy falls for the class science geek.
One minute Danny was running from the cops, and the next, he jolted awake in an unfamiliar body--his own, but different. Somehow, he's crossed into a parallel universe. Now his friends are his enemies, his parents are long dead, and studious Eevee is not the mysterious femme fatale he once kissed back home. Then again, this Eevee--a girl who'd rather land an internship...
14) Doodle Bugg
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c1984
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Scribble's desire to be an artist like the other Doodle Buggs leads him to draw on sidewalks, walls, and any other flat surface he can find.
15) Graffiti moon
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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Told in alternating voices, an all-night adventure featuring Lucy, who is determined to find an elusive graffiti artist named Shadow, and Ed, the last person Lucy wants to spend time with, except for the fact that he may know how to find Shadow.
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2015.
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Sparks fly when Beatrix Adams, seventeen, who strives to be a medical illustrator, meets Jack, one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists, but even as Beatrix begins to uncover the secrets that have left Jack so wounded, her own family secrets threaten to tear them apart.
17) Anonymouse
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"An anonymous artist transforms the city through graffiti, inspiring other urban critters to get creative with their own surroundings."--
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