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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly.
2) Horse
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English
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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
4) The artist
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English
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A brave little artist goes on an epic adventure to share her creativity with the world, adding color and life to a drab, gray city.
5) In the frame
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English
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From a New York Times bestseller, “action, character, and color ride in perfect balance” in a thriller about a horse portraitist turned amateur sleuth (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Charles Todd, a renowned painter of horses, is shocked when he turns up at his cousin...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Charles Todd, a renowned painter of horses, is shocked when he turns up at his cousin...
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English
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Danielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case of a painting reputed to come to life--and to bring death. They begin to make connections between that summer in Switzerland and this spring in Louisiana. Danni, the owner of an eccentric antiques shop, and Quinn, a private detective, have discovered that they have separate but complementary talents when it comes to investigating unusual situations....
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History and fiction collide with deadly consequences in the third Kate McKinnon novel-a story of bitter revenge, where the past invades the present and a decades-old secret proves fatal Kate McKinnon has lived many lives, from Queens cop to Manhattan socialite, television art historian, and the woman who helped the NYPD capture the Death Artist and the Color Blind killer. But that's the past. Now, devastated by the death of her husband, Kate is attempting...
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English
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An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ben paints a picture of his mother, with a little help from Owl, Rabbit, Alligator, Elephant, Lion, and Giraffe.
At school one day Bear paints a picture of his mother. On his way home, each of his friends offers advice on how to make the picture look even better. Will Mama Bear be angry -- or amused -- when she sees Bear's unusual portrait?
12) The gray day
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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On a rainy day, a young artist struggles to find inspiration--until she remembers all the things she loves that are black and white.
13) Rickshaw girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy-- or disguise herself as one.
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Belles of London volume 4
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English
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"Stella Hobhouse is a brilliant rider, stalwart friend, skilled sketch artist-and completely overlooked. Her outmodish gray hair makes her invisible to London society. Combined with her brother's pious restrictions and her dwindling inheritance, Stella is on the verge of a lifetime marooned in Derbyshire as a spinster. Unless she does something drastic... like posing for a daring new style of portrait by the only man who's ever really seen her. Aspiring...
15) Peter's painting
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Peter, a young Asian boy, reveals the power of his imagination through his painting.
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English
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"An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge."--Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international...
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It all begins with a painting called Guilt. Eve Duncan's daughter, Jane, has no idea why she painted the portrait of the chilling face that now hangs in a Paris gallery. But the members of a cult that dates back to the time of Christ know both the face and the significance behind it. They believe that Jane must die - when the moment is right, and not an instant before she leads them to an ancient treasure whose value and power are beyond price. But...
19) The shadows
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Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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.
20) All I see
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child paints with an artist friend who sees and paints only whales.
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