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American Indian Youth Literature Award
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Nov 2023 - Native American History Month
Poetry: Books for Teens
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Nov 2023 - Native American History Month
Poetry: Books for Teens
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"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Read-Alikes for The Art Thief
True Crime: Up Close and Personal
Read-Alikes for The Art Thief
True Crime: Up Close and Personal
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A world-renowned art forger who has been duping the art world for forty-five years and served time after a widely-publicized trial, describes the secrets and corruption of that universe while giving an art history lesson.
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"The first original graphic novel in a new series spotlighting the true stories of the real groundbreakers who changed our world for the better. "Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am." Meet Edmonia Lewis, the woman who changed America during the Civil War by becoming the first sculptor of African-American and Native American...
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Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the Excellence in the Arts book, students learn about the creative Asian men and women who have contributed so much to the artistic fabric of America-from poetry to painting to writing to music. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate,...
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Language
English
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From Da Vinci to Warhol, each of these 20 artists is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the history of art. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.
ARTISTS INCLUDED:
- Da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Bruegel
- Anguissola
- Rembrandt
- Hokusai
- Cassatt
- Van Gogh
- Kollwitz
- Matisse
- Picasso
- Chagall Duchamp
- O'Keeffe
- Johnson
- Dali
- Noguchi
- Rivera
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Addresses the creative side of genius in a series of portraits of men and women and explores the influence of their work on their lives and on the development of art, literature, fashion, music, and other creative fields in the Western world.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Tyler Gordon's journey from a regular kid growing up in San Jose, California, to a nationally recognized artist wasn't without its challenges. For the first six years of his life he was fully deaf, which led to a stutter and bullying. Art gave him a creative outlet for his pain. Then, after painting a portrait of Kamala Harris and posting it on social media, he received a call from the vice president herself! Soon his art was everywhere....
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