Chasing Vermeer
The disappearance of a precious Vermeer painting, coupled with a series of seemingly unrelated and strange events, prompts eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder to combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 277
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: vermeer, johannes, art, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, audiobooks [X], compact discs, drawings, paintings [X], detective and mystery stories, drawing, painting
Pictures Of Hollis Woods
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 272
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: family, old age, foster home care, artists, orphans, new york (state), family life, large type books, art, painting, drawing, families, audiobooks [X], paintings [X], drawings, newbery award, newbery medal, reading counts!
Buddha Boy
Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: conduct of life, peer pressure, artists, buddhism, high schools, audiobooks [X], orphans, school stories, schools, paintings [X], drawings, art
Fly On The Wall
Gretchen Yee, a student at the Manhattan School for Art and Music, wishes she were a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room in order to learn more about guys--never expecting her wish to come true in such a dramatic way.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: artists, interpersonal relations, metamorphosis, flies, high schools, new york (n.y.), schools, audiobooks [X], compact discs, paintings [X], drawings, art, school stories