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 [X], families [X], audiobooks, paintings, drawings, newbery award, newbery medal, reading counts!
Bird
Bird, an artistic young African American boy, expresses himself through drawing as he struggles to understand his older brother's drug addiction and death, while a family friend, Uncle Son, provides guidance and understanding.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: novels in verse, death, drug abuse, drawing [X], family life, families [X], african americans, novels in verse
Holly Bloom's Garden
Holly, discouraged that she does not seem to have inherited the gardening skills of her mother and siblings, comes up with a creative way to make her flowers bloom.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
Pablo Picasso
Looks at the life and career of early twentieth-century Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso.
920
year: 2015
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
lexile: 650
subjects: picasso, pablo, artists, artists' materials, art appreciation, families [X], modernism (art), electronic books, art, painting, drawing [X], drawings, paintings
Vincent Van Gogh
Tells of Vincent can Gogh's life and his impressionist style of art, including sketches and self-portraits.
920
year: 2015
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
lexile: 550
subjects: van gogh, vincent, artists, art appreciation, artists' materials, impressionism (art), families [X], gogh, vincent van, painters, electronic books, art, painting, drawing [X], drawings, paintings
Places We've Never Been
While on a cross-country RV trip with her family, aspiring video game animator Norah reunites with an old friend, prepares for her college interview, and encounters unexpected romance and revelations.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: recreational vehicles, automobile travel, drawing [X], colleges and universities, dating (social customs), family life, realistic fiction, college stories, families [X], universities and colleges, dating, romance fiction
Memphis
"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.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african american families, racism against black people, racism, families [X], drawing [X], memphis (tenn.), domestic fiction, social problem fiction