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83) The blue mirror
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
85) Stink alley
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Living in Holland in 1614 with the harsh Puritan leader, William Brewster, and working for the family of a mischievous Dutch boy named Rembrandt, a spirited twelve-year-old orphan girl struggles to do what is right.
87) The bird artist
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Young Fabian Vas is a painter, specializing in pictures of birds, in Newfoundland in 1911. He resorts to murder when his mother launches an affair with the lighthouse keeper while his father is off on a hunting trip.
88) Leaving Emma
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Emma faces many unpleasant changes as her best friend prepares to move away, her father goes to Turkey for five months, and her mother starts college, but with the help of her great-aunt Grace, Emma becomes a lot more independent and self-reliant.
90) The Englisher
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, struggles to keep her promise to her father--to abandon her art for a full six months. Will Annie's intention to join the Amish church be derailed by the attention of a handsome Englisher?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own piece, and Arthur Bryant and John May, the founders of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, must work together to find the killer, who an eyewitness claims is a cape-clad highwayman riding a black stallion.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to his success: every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills--like the ability to speak obscure languages and an inexplicable genius for chess. All his life, he's wondered if his dreams are recollections--if he's re-experiencing other people's lives. Linz Jacobs is a neurogeneticist,...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to be herself.
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