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1) Pet
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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
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Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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Given the responsibility of taking care of his favorite carousel dog's tail during the winter, Ernst, the young blue crocodile, finds, as time goes by, that he cannot resist his own artistic urges.
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Returning to her small Alaska home town after her bipolar best friend's death, Corey uncovers chilling secrets about the townspeople and their treatment of Kyra prior to her drowning.
When Corey moves away from Lost Creek, Alaska, she makes her friend Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return. Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones, saying...
6) Anonymouse
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Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"An anonymous artist transforms the city through graffiti, inspiring other urban critters to get creative with their own surroundings."--
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Nest for Celeste volume 1
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Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home, becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans, Louisiana, plantation in 1821.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
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Bruño
Pub. Date
[2016]
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31 pages : color illustrations, 26 cm
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"Sin duda, Lupo ha nacido para ser artista, solo tiene que encontrar su verdadera vocación. Pintor, poeta, escultor, actor... ¡todo lo intenta! Sin embargo, ser artista no resulta fácil... ¿Lo conseguirá?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Seventh-graders Jin, Alexandra, and Elvin come from very different backgrounds and circumstances, but they all live in Harlem, and when Elvin's grandfather is attacked they band together to find out who is responsible--and the search leads them to an enigmatic artist whose missing masterpieces are worth a fortune, and into conflict with an ambitious politician who wants to turn Harlem into an historic amusement park.
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Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
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297 pages : illustrations, coat of arms ; 22 cm
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When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...
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Dragon's guide volume 1
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Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
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El galardonado artista John Parra nos trae un conmovedor y engañosamente simple cuento infantil ilustrado inspirado por su propia niñez, sobre el lazo entre padre e hijo, el valor de trabajar duro y los vínculos que existen entre la naturaleza, el arte y la creatividad.Hoy es el gran día: ¡la primera vez que su papá lleva a Juanito a ayudarlo en su trabajo de contratista de jardinería! A lo largo del día, Juanito dibuja todo lo que le llama...
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