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1) Indelicacy
Author
Language
English
Description
"A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles--cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical--that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires"--
2) Imagine!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: After passing a city museum many times, a boy finally decides to go in. He passes wall after wall of artwork until he sees a painting that makes him stop and ponder. Before long the painting comes to life and an afternoon of adventure and discovery unfolds, changing how he sees the world ever after.
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 23
Publisher
Greenwillow/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Housekeeper Amelia Bedelia visits an art museum, where her confusion leads to surprising results.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with "a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist" is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Strange things are afoot: CeMArt's current exhibit is sponsored by a Belgian multinational that wants to take over...
8) The museum
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why.
Author
Series
Babar (Brunhoff) volume 65
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Babar and Celeste convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants.
12) The caretaker
Author
Language
English
Description
"Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. This peculiar institution (The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr. Charles Alexander Morgan) is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the world feels too big, loud, and busy, a young girl imagines a museum where she can organize little pieces of it and wonder about them.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 44
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This essential companion to all the major North American museums and galleries highlights some of the world's greatest paintings, from Giotto to Robert Motherwell, on display across the U.S. and Canada. Julian Porter brings a passion for art that began with a seven-year stint as a student tour guide in Europe, followed by countless tours he has conducted at galleries in Europe and North America. His co-author, Stephen Grant, brings a wealth of expertise...
Author
Series
My weird school volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Something weird is going on! A.J. thinks that nothing can possibly be as boring as a sleepover in the natural history museum. But anything can happen when Ms. Krup is in charge. The tour guide says that dinosaur skeletons come to life in the middle of the night. Is she right?