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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Graphic Novels, Illustrated, Charles Dickens, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with...
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2011.
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English
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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation...
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"In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, uniquely American in its frank tone and honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the powerful message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation"--Dust jacket...
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Prestel
Pub. Date
c2015
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English
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This volume devoted to ekphrasis - poems inspired by paintings, and paintings inspired by poems - explores the art of transformation from one medium into another. Examples include William Carlos Williams's series of poems based on Breughel paintings and Delmore Schwartz's interpretation of Georges Seurat's iconic "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte."
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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[2016]
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English
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A master of storytelling through pictures and three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal, David Wiesner (b. 1956) is one of the most highly acclaimed book illustrators in the world. This handsome volume is the first to examine his creative process and his many sources of inspiration. The book features dozens of lavish color plates, from early work to the exquisitely wrought watercolors that are the basis of his best-known books, along with pages excerpted...
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DK
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2023.
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English
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"Timelines of Art provides detailed analysis of the works of key artists, showing details of their technique - such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le D�ejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and it traces how certain artists, genres or movements informed the works of others - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, or how...
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W. W. Norton & Company
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[2015]
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English
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"A collection of essays from a "great poet-critic-intellectual" (Daily Beast). In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last seven years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, renowned American critic Adam Kirsch explores the intersection of literature with larger questions about ideas, history, and society. Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute . . . [a] critic of the very first order" (Michiko Kakutani,...
10) Taipei: a novel
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Vintage Contemporaries
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©2013.
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English
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From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death.
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Derek Fallon books volume 1
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Henry Holt
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2010.
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English
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Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." Based on this simple statement by Leonardo, 18 poets have written new poems inspired by some of the most popular works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum. The collection represents a wide range of poets and artists, including acclaimed children s poets Marilyn Singer, Alma Flor Alda, and Carole Boston Weatherford and popular artists...
14) Glitter
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Tiger Tales
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2017.
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English
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"Gloria the rhino loves glitter. She has glitter slippers and a glitter scooter, and she spreads her sparkles wherever she goes; here, there, and everywhere! The townsfolk, though, are tired of it. No more glitter, Gloria! they tell her. But soon, the entire town is covered in glitter. What will everyone think now?"--Provided by publisher.
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The British Library
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2013.
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English
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"Explores the range, power, and beauty of Shakespearean art, from the great illustrated editions of the 18th and 19th centuries to the impact of the romantic movement, the Pre-Raphaelites, art nouveau, modern art, and animated film"--Dust jacket flap.
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Einstein the class hamster volume 1
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Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2013.
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English
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Einstein, a very knowledgeable hamster, is desperate to help the students in his classroom win an audition for a televised trivia game show but, unfortunately, only one student, Ned, can hear him.
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
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"An inquisitive opposites book featuring original abstract artwork"--
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"Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--
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