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Drawing Lessons

Tracy Mack

Twelve-year-old Rory begins to lose the passion for making art that she shares with her father after she finds him kissing his female model and fears for the safety of her parents' marriage.

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Bryan Talbot

Lita Sorensen

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Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the a

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My Name Is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

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Frida Kahlo

Mike Venezia

Discusses the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, including her childhood, her art, and her marriage to Diego Rivera.

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A Drawing in the Sand

Jerry Butler

Describes Jerry Butler's development as an artist and his discovery of the long and beautiful tradition of Afro-American art that preceded him.

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Norman Rockwell

Joel H. Cohen

A biography of the painter who for sixty-five years portrayed America for Americans as they liked to see themselves.

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Paintbrush & Peacepipe

Anne F. Rockwell

A biography of the nineteenth-century artist who traveled in the West painting the Indians and their way of life.

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Famous Author-illustrators for Young People

Norah Smaridge

Brief biographies of nineteen author-illustrators include Roger Duvoisin, Dr. Seuss, Kate Greenaway, Lois Lenski, and Tomi Ungerer.

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