Amy Novesky
1) Me, Frida
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all.
4) Mary Poppins
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A picture book adaptation of the tale of the English nanny Mary Poppins, who enters the lives of the Banks family and upends its usual routines.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One day, a girl gets on her motorcycle and rides away. She wants to wander the world. To go...Elsewhere. This is the true story of the first woman to ride a motorcycle around the world alone. Each place has something to teach her. Each place is beautiful. And despite many flat tires and falls, she learns to always get back up and keep riding.
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Young Mary Browne Robinson loved color, even her name had a color in it. All she wanted to do was to make art. But becoming an artist wasn't an easy. Her parents worked hard to provide her paper and paints, and Mary worked hard to enter contests and earn a spot at a school for the arts. She even had to work hard to find her place at the Walt Disney Studios. But Walt was easily impressed by Mary Blair. When she joined his trip to South America, Mary...
14) Love is a truck
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates a child's love for a variety of trucks, from fire engines to cement mixers to ice cream trucks.
15) Love is a tutu
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Combines rhymes with pink-hued retro illustrations in a book that evinces the earnest love of all things ballet through depictions of little ballerinas dancing across each page.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After losing her mother, shy Natumi is rescued by a team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants. At the shelter, Natumi hides behind keepers' legs to watch the other elephants at the shelter. But soon, she meets several other orphans, and the eight of them play together in the surrounding bush. As the babies become closer and more like a real family, they need a leader, someone they can trust. Can Natumi grow into...