Artists

  • 33 Snowfish - Rapp
  • A Vicarage Family by Streatfield,  Noel,
  • All-American Girl, Meg Cabot
  • Anneli the Art Hater by Fine, Anne,
  • Behind Secret Window: A Memoir of Hidden Childhood During WWII by Toll, Nelly,
  • Better than Running at Night - Frank
  • Bittersweet by Lamm, which is really about two things: 15 yo girl is an artist, but loses it after her beloved grandmother has a stroke and is catatonic.
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Patterson, Katherine,
  • Buddha Boy - Koja
  • Celine - Cole
  • Darkhenge by Fisher, Catherine,
  • Drawing Lessons by Mack, Tracy,
  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
  • Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
  • Good night, Mr. Tom by Magorian, Michelle,
  • Greenwitch by Cooper, Susan,
  • How to Write Really Badly by Fine, Anne,
  • I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Volavkova, Hana,
  • Indigo's Star, by McKay, Hillary,
  • Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May,
  • Magic or Not by Eager, Edward,
  • My Name is Asher Lev by Potok, Chaim,
  • Permanent Rose by McKay, Hillary,
  • Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.
  • Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay has a very funny artistic family in it.
  • Simon Says by Elaine Marie Alphin
  • Some Things That Stay by Sarah Willis.  A teen girl and her family live by the whims of her painter father and she is quite tired of it.
  • Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan (all sorts of arts)
  • Target, Kathleen Johnson Jeffries
  • The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle (German spy? artist)
  • The Beckoning Hills by Harris, Ruth Elwin,
  • The Birthday Room by Henkes, Kevin,
  • The Broken Bridge by Pullman, Philip,
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
  • The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (graffiti/urban art)
  • The Monument. Paulsen, Gary.   Grades 6- 10.Gary Paulsen chronicles the events that take place in a small Kansas town when an itinerant artist is commissioned to construct a memorial to the town’s war dead.
  • The Mozart Season by Wolff, Virginia Euwer,
  • The Painter by Hathorn, Libby,
  • The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland
  • The Well Wishers by Eager, Edward,
  • Thwonk by Joan Bauer (photography)
  • Tightrope by Gillian Cross
  • What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones (art class)
  • Whirligig by Fleischman, Paul,

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