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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.
3) Squint
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English
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Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.
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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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"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
10) Inkling
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English
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When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
11) The young artist
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Dial
Pub. Date
c1989.
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English
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A talented young artist commanded to paint the king's courtiers, all of whom wish to be portrayed with improved appearances, struggles with his sense of integrity, which demands honest portraiture.
12) Violets are blue
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English
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Twelve-year-old Wren, who is learning special effects makeup, is thrilled to be makeup artist for her new school's production of Wicked, but her parents' divorce is seriously affecting her mother.--
14) Masterpiece
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2008.
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English
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After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
15) River boy
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to fulfill a lifelong dream.
17) Dobry
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Viking
Pub. Date
c1934.
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English
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A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer.
18) Saffy's angel
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[Casson Family series] volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special memento of her past.
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English
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When Georgia finds a secret sketch her late father--a famed artist--left behind, the discovery leads her down a path that may reshape everything holding her family and friends together. Caroline Gertler's debut is a story about friendship, family, grief, and creativity.
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Dork diaries volume 1
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
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