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"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
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Chasing Vermeer volume 1
Language
English
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When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
4) The dot
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English
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Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
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Questioneers volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
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2014.
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English
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When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
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Chasing Vermeer volume 4
Language
English
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When thirteen high-value pieces of art are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra, and Tommy are grouped with two new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.
10) The gallery
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English
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In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
12) Under the egg
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English
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Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
13) Hum and swish
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Jamie wants to quietly work on an art project near her friend, the sea, but people keep disturbing her by asking questions.
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Babar (Brunhoff) volume 65
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Babar and Celeste convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants.
15) Just add glitter
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text encourage the reader to add glitter to everything in sight, until even what should really sparkle is obscured.
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Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First American edition.
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English
Description
While visiting the art museum, Katie has an adventure stepping in and out of five paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Includes information about Post-impressionism and the particular paintings and artists in the story.
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My weird school volume 4
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English
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A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
19) Paper heart
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[2021]
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English
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Companion to: Tornado brain.
Mere months after her best friend's death, thirteen-year-old Tess spends a summer with family in Wyoming, making friends at art camp while being haunted by Colette and her own anxieties.
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