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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"This is the story of Marcel Duchamp and how the Dada art movement changed the way people thought about what art could be and what could be art. From drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa to attaching a bicycle wheel to a stool, Duchamp challenged long-held notions of art and how it should be made. People were amused, confused, and sometimes offended, and that was just the way Marcel Duchamp liked it. With Marcel's Masterpiece, Jeff Mack explores Duchamp's...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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...
123) Alas salvajes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y tambi�en lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobaci�on. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jard�in secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un hurac�an derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a Centroam�erica y se une a miles de refugiados...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel's wrists, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
�Divi�ertete y aprende con las aventuras de Kat, la gata karateka, y sus amigos del Kata Club! Katerina Katosawa es una gata valiente y audaz que quiere ser la mejor karateka del mundo y no parar�a hasta conseguirlo, por mucho que le digan que es demasiado peque�na y adorable. Quiere entrar en el Kata Club, el mejor dojo de la ciudad. Para ello tendr�a que entrenar mucho, pero, sobre todo, tendr�a que descubrir lo que significa ser una...
126) Arts and thefts
Author
Series
MAX volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ahh, summer vacation! Jeremy Wilderson, Scottsville Middle School's first (and only) retrieval specialist, is enjoying a slower-than-usual season of retrieving (NOT stealing) lost objects in order to help the under thirteen population of Scottsville. But crime doesn't take a vacation! And when sabotage strikes Scottsville's event of the year-the Summer Art Show-threatening to ruin the burgeoning painting career of Jeremy's best friend, Case, it's...
127) Blood water paint
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
©2009.
Language
Español
Description
"Nuevo instituto. Típica niña odiosa. Flechazo a la vista. Nuevo diario en el que Nikki le da vueltas y más vueltas a todo... "--Back cover.
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Carolina's summer -- and life as she knows it -- is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter's house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows camp, where her bossy older cousin Gabriela rules the social scene. Just as Carolina worries she'll have to spend the entire summer in Gabriela's shadow, she makes a friend of her own in Jennifer,...
130) A phở love story
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Food for Thought: Teens
Lunch with a Librarian
Titles Worth Trying: Romance [High School]
Food for Thought: Teens
Lunch with a Librarian
Titles Worth Trying: Romance [High School]
Description
If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fifth favorite employee. Not ideal. If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a firecracker. Stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. She loves art and dreams pursuing...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still,...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Matt Roth's father dies, he spends his entire inheritance buying the Escapist's trademark rights. Hoping to introduce the Escapist to a new generation of comics fans he assembles a team of artists. Though, after a publicity stunt featuring the hero goes wrong, the fiasco threatens to ground the entire project"--
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Rose Hemmersbach aspires to break out of small town Sparta, Wisconsin and achieve her artistic dreams, just like her aunt Colleen, but must face her mother's heroin addiction and its ramifications first.
"Rose Hemmersbach aspires to break out of small town Sparta, Wisconsin and achieve her artistic dreams at Belwyn School for the Arts after she graduates. Painting is her escape from her annoying siblings and her family's one rule:...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...
136) Alice & Gert
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"An ant and grasshopper story that recalls one of Aesop's classic fable, with a heart-warming twist. As in the traditional ant and grasshopper fable, winter is coming and Alice the ant is industriously stocking up nuts and seeds to see her through the harsh season. Meanwhile, Gert the grasshopper is carefree, singing songs, performing plays, and creating art out of the flowers and leaves around her. At first Alice disapproves, but as she gathers her...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Agnes Martin was born on the Canadian prairies in the early twentieth century. In this imagining of her childhood from acclaimed author Tessa McWatt, Agnes spends her days surrounded by wheat fields, where her grandfather encourages her to draw what she sees and feels around her: the straight horizon, the feeling of the sun, the movement of birds' wings and the shapes she sees in the wheat. One day, Agnes's family moves to a house in a big city....
138) Por amor al arte
Author
Series
Publisher
Libros de Seda
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Bienvenidos al mundo de una riqueza fabulosa en el Londres de 1909, donde los vestidos y las casas rebosan opulencia, la clase social a la que se pertenece lo es todo y las mujeres son educadas para ser madres y esposas, pero nada más. Y en este mundo crece Victoria Darling, una muchacha de diecisiete años que lo único que desea es ser artista, algo casi imposible para una chica. Tras un posado desnuda, es expulsada del colegio francés en el...
139) Te daría el sol
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Una novela salvaje y profundamente conmovedora, con una brillante historia sobre el primer amor, la familia y la traición. Noah y su hermana gemela Jude son inseparables. El solitario Noah dibuja sin parar, y se ha enamorado en secreto de su enigmático vecino. La atrevida Jude salta desde altísimos acantilados, se pinta los labios de rojo y habla hasta por los codos. Pero tres años después, a los 16, los hermanos ya no se hablan. Algo pasó...
140) Matthew's dream
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter.
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