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• Eleven Kinds of Blue

  Wolff, Katherine (Children's author),

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  An art-obsessed twelve-year-old learns to paint outside the lines to confront her fears and find her strength when her depressed mom's disastrous boyfriend moves in.

• Candle Island

  Wolk, Lauren, 1956-

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  With an unforgettable New England setting and a complex web of relationships old and new, Candle Island is a powerful story about art, loss, and the power of being true to your own voice.

• The Scarlet Ship

  An Original Graphic Novel

  Grimond, Claire,

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  Malo dreams of becoming a great artist, like his grandmother, but he's not quite sure he has what it takes. Everything changes when Malo and his new friend, Cyane, stumble upon a sinister plot aboard the ship. Now, it's up to them to save Madame…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Art Club

  Doucet, Rashad,

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  Drawn from the author's own childhood like New Kid , this contemporary graphic novel paints a picture of an aspiring young artist on a mission to prove that the arts are worth fighting for.

• The Magic Paintbrush

  Zhang, Kat, 1991-

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  When Amy, a Chinese American girl, picks up an ancient paintbrush, it unwittingly unleashes the power to make her art real--and sometimes dangerous.

• The Mona Lisa Vanishes

  a Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

  Day, Nicholas, 1991-

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• Beneath the Swirling Sky

  Leiloglou, Carolyn,

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  Twelve-year-old Vincent must confront his conflicted feelings with art as he and his cousin attempt to rescue his sister after discovering he is one of the last of The Restorationists, a secret society with the power to travel through paintings and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of Magic

  a Novel

  Voskuil, Hannah,

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  When ZuZu and Andrew discover a set of enchanted art supplies that allow them to create magical creatures, they find themselves drawn into a supernatural struggle for control of their town

• Doodleville. [2], Art Attacks!

  Sell, Chad,

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  Drew never meant for this to happen. She didn't mean for her doodle Mike to steal the centuries-old hat. And she definitely didn't mean to send the Art Institute of Chicago into a downward spiral of art-on-art combat.

• All the Greys on Greene Street

  Tucker, Laura, 1973-

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  SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist -- and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Then everything falls apart. Ollie's dad disappears in the middle of the night, leaving her only a cryptic note and instructions to destroy it. And someone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behind the Canvas

  Vance, Alexander P. (Alexander Phillip), 1978-

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  Seventh-grader Claudia Miravista loves art, but socially she is always the odd girl out--but on a trip to the local art museum she sees a boy in a painting, who moves from painting to painting, and soon she embarks on an adventure behind the canvas,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under the Egg

  Fitzgerald, Laura Marx

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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.

• Wonderstruck

  a Novel in Words and Pictures

  Selznick, Brian

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  In Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, past and present stories collide with each other when Ben looks for his father after an unfortunate accident. He meets Rose, who shows deaf Ben how deafness can also open new doors. Rose, who is also deaf uses…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  Konigsburg, E. L.

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  Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

• Chasing Vermeer

  Balliett, Blue, 1955-

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  When strange and seemingly unrelated 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.

• The Van Gogh Deception

  Hicks, Deron R.,

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  When a young boy is discovered in Washington, DC's National Gallery of Art without any recollection of who he is, he must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using his limited knowledge to stop one of the greatest art frauds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leah Vs. Art

  McCullough, Joy,

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  Sixth-grader Leah's Quiz Bowl competitive spirit jeopardizes both her friendships and her parent-defying scheme to ditch Art Club.

• Things Seen From Above

  Pearsall, Shelley,

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  April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a "buddy bench monitor" for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gallery

  Fitzgerald, Laura Marx,

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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.

• A Nest for Celeste

  a Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

  Cole, Henry, 1955-

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  Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home, becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans, Louisiana, plantation in 1821.