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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes--a weakness that could cost...
2) Glow
Author
Description
Julie investigates the origins of antique paintings with glowing images that she found in a thrift store and discovers the story of a group of young women artists, the Radium Girls, who used radioactive paint to create the world's first glow-in-the-dark products.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow - the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt's home in the mountains. The girl has always loved Auntie Luce's paintings - the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Inspired by the life of artist Grant Wood, this is [an] ... imagined story of the great American painter and a cow named Tillie. ... Mixing fact with fiction, Monica Kulling's text explores the making of an artist, while Sydney Smith's illustrations echo Grant Wood's own techniques"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Sisters of the salt volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"When the youngest Thaumas sister, Verity, leaves Salann for the lush Bloem on a painting commission, she quickly discovers that the intriguing Laurent family isn't as perfect as they appear"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"When Evie Perez is cut off from everything she loves and forced to move to Iceland for the summer, she takes her canvas and paintbrushes into the picturesque cherry orchard behind her guesthouse. She stains her lips with stolen cherries in the midnight sun and paints a boy she's never met. Oskar is startled to discover Evie in his family's orchard, and even more surprised to see himself on her canvas. Too ashamed to reveal his stutter, he remains...
Author
Series
Anholt's artists volume 5
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A girl visits a wonderful garden in Giverny, and meets the great impressionist painter Claude Monet.
10) Remy and Lulu
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A down-on-his-luck painter with poor eyesight teams up with a dog with a knack for painting portraits.
11) Mister Orange
Author
Pub. Date
c2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"When Linus Muller takes over making deliveries for his family's Manhattan grocery store in 1943, including bringing a crate of oranges every other week to an artist from Europe, the two become friends as they discuss war, the future, freedom, and imagination."
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