Cho, Lian
Summary: "Presenting Olive Chen! The most magnificent and brilliant artist in the whole wide world! Her parents are also artists--serious artists--who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes. They know Olive has the talent to follow in their footsteps. But Olive likes to smear, splatter, splash, and even lick. With a brush in each hand, Olive cascades through town with her friends in tow, painting what she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Stella the Mouse, Delilah the Spider, and Bo the Parakeet try to cheer up Nico the Toad by agreeing to join him on a school field trip to the art museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE GRIBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: When a priceless sculpture disappears from the Capitol City Art Museum, thirteen-year-old Clementine Wim, daughter of an assistant curator, and her three friends set out to solve the mystery and recover the Statue of Gudea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: At an art museum with his parents, Simon has trouble controlling his urges to slide on the floor, chase pigeons, and eat cheesecake at the cafe, until something special catches his eye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOOLiu, Joanne
Summary: In a nearly wordless picture book, Max visits an art museum where he sees paintings, sculptures, and even some art he creates, himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUParish, Herman.
Summary: Housekeeper Amelia Bedelia visits an art museum, where her confusion leads to surprising results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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Summary: "Princess Arabella and her friends go to the museum. There are works of different artists exhibited: some are big and others are small. In some works you can lose yourself and others make you smile. Then the children want to go home. Why? Because they want to make their own work of art."--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cassava Republic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREColón, Raúl
Summary: "When a boy visits an art museum and one of the paintings comes to life, he has an afternoon of adventure and discovery [that] changes how he sees the world ever after"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLNorman, Howard A.
Summary: A Jewish woman in 1938 Nova Scotia becomes obsessed with a painting in a museum. It is called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and is on loan from Holland. The woman decides to live the subject's life, a momentous decision as the Nazis are on the march. By the author of The Bird Artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORMuller, Marcia.
Summary: The director of Santa Barbara's Museum of Mexican Art discovers notes that lead her to a 19th-century treasure chest and into the arms of murderous peril.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MullePage, Katherine Hall.
Summary: Secretly assisting her museum president friend in a case involving a stolen piece of fine art, Faith Fairchild stumbles upon a murder scene near a controversial exhibit and becomes increasingly exasperated by the police's inability to recognize important clues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PAGVincent, Gabrielle.
Summary: When Celestine momentarily loses Ernest at the museum, she fears that he prefers the paintings to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC VINHummel, Maria
Summary: "Brenae Brazil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and a pupil of the institution's equally famous and influential director, Hal Giroux. Brenae's path to art world stardom is all but assured, so whydid she kill herself shortly after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, violence, and self-defence? Maggie Richter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMPage, Katherine Hall.
Summary: Secretly assisting her museum president friend in a case involving a stolen piece of fine art, Faith Fairchild stumbles upon a murder scene near a controversial exhibit and becomes increasingly exasperated by the police's inability to recognize important clues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMKeene, Carolyn
Summary: When a statue is broken during her class' overnight trip to the museum, Nancy, Bess, and George try to get to the bottom of the mystery and find those responsible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEESugiura, Misa
Summary: "When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and...heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer. Because Nozomi has a master plan of her own: one to show Willow she's better than a stand-in,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUGLongworth, M. L. (Mary Lou)
Summary: "Something strange has happened at the unassuming Mus©♭e de Quentin-Savary in Aix-en-Provence. When the director, Monsieur Achille Formentin, walks in one beautiful April morning, he is shocked to find the whole museum emptied of its contents -- only a bench, the reception desk, and a lowly fern remain. Distressed, he calls the local police, and Aix's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Longworth 2021Nelson, Jill Elizabeth.
Summary: If Desiree Jacobs knows anything, it's art. Her father, whose security company is internationally renowned, taught her everything he knew. Most of all, he taught her about honor, integrity, and faith. So surely God will forgive her for despising the one man determined to destroy her father's good name? Special Agent Tony Lucano knows Hiram Jacobs is an art thief. What he can't figure out is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NELMakkai, Rebecca
Summary: "A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Makkai 2018Brunhoff, Laurent de
Summary: Babar and Celeste convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BRUHauck, Rachel
Summary: Elle loves her comfortable life in Beaufort, South Carolina, but after being swept off her feet by the pastor of her church, she must decide if she will move with him to his new church in a different state, leaving behind the people and place she loves so dearly. As if things aren't complicated enough, she has recently developed a close friendship with her new tenant, a widower, and his daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: During a visit to the art museum, a little piglet and her grandfather investigate the disappearance of several paintings. Clues in the illustrations give readers a chance to solve the mystery along with the heroine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2003