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Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes--a weakness that could cost...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Narrates the life of the early American portrait painter who established the first public picture gallery in America and who pursued numerous other interests including natural history.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A novel set against the backdrops of Rome, Florence, and Genoa recreates the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, whose search for love, forgiveness, and wholeness through her art led to her fame as a painter.
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