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2) Pearl paints
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Using her new set of watercolors, Pearl paints a masterpiece.
3) Iced
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private eye Regan Reilly is spending the Christmas holidays with her parents in Aspen, when million-dollar paintings start disappearing, and her friend Eben, an ex-con, becomes a prime suspect.
8) Art & Max
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
World-renowned war photographer Andres Faulques retires to the Spanish coast, where he spends his days painting a mural honoring classic works of war art and incorporating his own disturbing images, and one day is approached by a man claiming to be the subject of one of Andres' most famous images.
12) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
13) Making waves
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for twenty-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business, and her husband Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not just with his disabilities but also with the loss of his dreams.
Once a promising artist who gave up art for sports, Tim paints a sign for Donnette's shop, Making Waves. The...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. She secretly wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's bound for Europe. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the box from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolor of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals the painting and hides it in his room....
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1939, artist Georgia O'Keeffe creates nearly twenty paintings as she tours the Hawaiian islands, but refuses to paint pictures of pineapples the way her sponsors tell her to.
18) The music lesson
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Art historian Patricia Dolan, left alone with a stolen Vermeer in a remote Irish cottage by the sea, comes to regard the woman in the priceless painting as both a judge and confidant who helps Patricia sort out the complexities of her life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jane MacGuire, the adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, goes on the run for her life when a painting included in her Paris exhibition draws the attention of the members of a mysterious cult who determine Jane must die.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
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