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61) Quest
Author
Series
Journey trilogy (Aaron Becker) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this story without words, "a king emerges from a hidden door in a city park, startling two children sheltering from the rain. No sooner does he push a map and some strange objects into their hands than he is captured by hostile forces that whisk him back through the enchanted door. Just like that, the children are caught up in a quest to rescue the king and his kingdom from darkness, while illuminating the farthest reaches of their imagination"--Amazon.com....
63) I can't draw
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Max recruits his friend Eugene to teach him how to improve his drawing, but none of Eugene's helpful tips fit Max's style.
Author
Series
Tom Gates stories volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Irritating his teachers with his lack of focus and creative excuses, Tom Gates spends his time drawing pictures and writing down observations about everything from his grumpy sister and annoying classmate to an unsatisfying camping trip.
66) The pencil
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Matias has decided to draw the Sun. It seems, however, that what for Matias is clearly his best drawing of this star, represents many other things for his friends. They all appreciate his work in a very different way, and that is why they see so many different things in his drawing.
Author
Series
Which way to anywhere volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Gifted with the ability to draw maps of worlds that are beyond imagining, K2 O'Hero, sworn to keep his family's magical history a secret, must use his gift to find a crossing point into one of those worlds when his baby sister is kidnapped.s
70) A squiggly story
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English
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A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. His sister patiently explains, "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter. Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers...
71) Drawing outdoors
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English
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"Maybe your school has a playground, gym, computers, and a library. But at this school in a faraway mountain range, things are a little different. There's a blackboard, some chairs.and not much else. But with the help of an extraordinary teacher and a little imagination, anything is possible! The students in this spirited picture book spend their days drawing dinosaurs outdoors. They draw astounding, spectacular creatures that come to life before...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A young artist has drawn birds and bird houses in corresponding colors. Now it's time to match them up. The blue bird goes in the blue house, the orange bird in the orange house, and so on. But wait! The birds don't agree with the narrator's choices and, much to her distress, are rebelling by swapping houses. Can the narrator make the birds see sense? Or is it possible that you just can't tell a bird by its feathers?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After a long, cold winter, doors finally open, and children spill out like candies from a box. Amanda is the last one out of the apartment building, with a carton of chalk in her hands. On every inch of the pavement outside, the children draw pictures of flowers and trees, mushrooms and snails, and a few very unexpected things. It's a concrete garden. Their creativity, unfettered in the open air, brings something beautiful, something hopeful, to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Young Lubaya is happiest when she's drawing, often behind the sofa while her family watches TV. There, she creates pictures on the backs of her parents' old protest posters. But when upsetting news shouts into their living room, her parents need the posters again. The next day her family takes part in a march, and there, on one side of the posters being held high, are Lubaya's drawings of kids holding hands and of the sun shining over the globe--rousing...
75) Dibujemos juntos
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Nobody would play with Lucy on her first day of class, so she begins to draw animals on the playground.
"Nadie quiere jugar con Lucy en su primer día de clases, así que la maestra le da unos gises de colores y Lucy comienza a dibujar animales en el patio. Ella no se da cuenta de que Zac y Yair, sentados en una banca, la miran. Poco a poco, Lucy, Zac y Yaír superan la timidez y el sentirse solos en una nueva escuela, para convertirse en los mejores...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Read along with Harold as he grows up and has adventures with his two friends, Moose and Porcupine!
Join Harold, Porcupine, and Moose as they surf the ocean's waves, get lost in the big city, learn to ride a motorcycle, and discover a world much bigger than they could ever imagine.
77) Memphis: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...
Author
Series
No more (Kerry Lonsdale) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson's younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But she writes. Once a year, Lily mails a picture of her son, Josh, to Olivia until his thirteenth year. Then it's Josh himself who arrives at Olivia's house, alone, terrified, and in possession of a notarized declaration from Lily. It begins, "In the event I go missing..." Josh has difficulty talking....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Why is the killer seemingly targeting her business? Desperately seeking...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
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When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.
"Un día, en la escuela, Duncan encontró un montón de cartas para él. Eran sus crayones que, molestos por el trato que recibían, decidieron escribir cartas como ultimátum para Duncan. Crayón Beige está cansado de ser el segundón de Crayón Café; Crayón Negro quiere ser usado para algo más que los contornos;...
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