Product Description: American artist Jeremy Keane refuses to return home and take over his father's business. He'd much rather sample bevvies of beauties abroad, in search of a model for the provocative masterpiece he's driven to paint. When he meets Lady Yvette Barlow at a London wedding, he realizes she's perfect for his work-and determines to capture the young heiress's defiant spirit and breathtaking sensuality on canvas...read more

Product Description: Art on Fire is the apparent biography of subversive painter Francesca deSilva, the founding foremother of "pseudorealism," who lived hard and died young. But in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov's acclaimed novel Pale Fire, it's a fiction from start to finish...read more

The Third Edition of The Stieglitz Informal Reading Inventory, known as the SIRI, continues to offer a simple and clear approach to reading assessment. This inventory can be used in a variety of educational settings allowing teachers with limited or no experience with informal reading inventories can easily administer this instrument. Those with more skill can take advantage of the SIRI's numerous diagnostic options to examine specific reading behaviors in word recognition and comprehension. Section One provides an introduction to the SIRI. Section Two describes procedures for initial administration and scoring of the SIRI. The diagnostic options of the SIRI are presented in Section Three for the examiner who wishes to go beyond the initial administration and obtain additional information on students' reading behaviors. Section Four contains a collection of student test materials, and Section Five includes copies of forms needed to record the results. Finally, Section Six presents information and technical data on the development and validation of the SIRI. Language Arts teachers at the elementary and secondary levels.

Sixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie city, Raphaelle wants to make a new start. Reborn as "Ella," she tries to fit in at her new school. She's drawn to Samir, a Muslim boy in her art class, and expresses her confused feelings in explicit art. When a classmate texts a photo of Ella's art to a younger friend, the fallout spreads throughout Ella's life, threatening to destroy her already-fragile family. Told entirely in verse, Audacious is a brave, funny and hard-hitting portrait of a girl who embodies the word audacity.

Product Description: What is the role of art in the world? And what is the responsibility of the artist? After the death of his wife, Michael Benchere, a well-respected sculptor and once-famous architect, looks for ways to redefine the meaning of his life through the purpose of his art...read more

Product Description: The brand-new Disney Fairies story Art Lessons by Bess joins A Masterpiece for Bess in one beautiful book, illustrated throughout with full-color art. Fans of Tinker Bell and her friends will find this two-in-one paperback a great value at $8.99.

Product Description: It was supposed to be just another flight, another escape into a foreign place where she could forget her past, forget her attachments. Until Clara found herself seated next to an alluring boy named Elias Phinn—a boy who seems to know secrets she has barely been able to admit to herself for years...read more

Product Description: The Bridges of Constantine is a poignant fresco of Algeria over the last fifty years, a searing love story and a hymn to a lost city. Khaled, a former revolutionary in the Algerian war of liberation has been in self-exile in Paris for two decades, disgusted by the corruption that now riddles the country he once fought for...read more

Product Description: Although she has been raised by her father, sixteen-year-old Ginny has always felt a bond with her mother, a Haitian painter whom she has never known. Like her mother, Ginny is a talented and passionate artist. As the only mixed-race teen in a small Welsh village, Ginny hasn't always had an easy life, but her love for art has always helped her get along...read more

    Who wants to learn calligraphy when your brush is meant for so much more? Wu Daozi (689-758), known as China's greatest painter and alive during the T'ang Dynasty, is the subject of this stunning picture book. When an old monk attempts to teach young Daozi about the ancient art of calligraphy, his brush doesn't want to cooperate. Instead of characters, Daozi's brush drips dancing peonies and flying Buddhas! Soon others are admiring his unbelievable creations on walls around the city, and one day his art comes to life! Little has been written about Daozi, but Look and So masterfully introduce the artist to children.

Product Description: "For Josie Giancola, owner of the Button Box shop, every button is a tiny work of art with its own story to tell--a story that just might end in murder..." Artist Forbis Parmenter has invited Josie to the opening of his latest exhibit of voodoo-inspired works...read more

Product Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   On the road, on a hot Arizona night, Dylan O’Conner is overpowered by a stranger who injects him with an unknown substance. All he’s told is that he’s the “carrier,” not of a disease but of something wondrous that will transform his life in remarkable ways—if it doesn’t kill him in the next twenty-four hours...read more

Product Description: Opposites ignite… Where relationships are concerned, Safire Lewis is like quick fire. She moves fast to get what she wants—then moves on before things get too complicated. Artist Darien James's laid-back charm arouses her interest from their first meeting...read more

Product Description: Fourth-grade artist Channing O'Banning returns in her third adventure, where she is determined to get the pencil set of her dreams. But when she finds that it's way out of her price range, she and her sidekicks come up with a wild and zany idea...read more

Product Description: Fired from her factory job after creating colorful eggs instead of the white, oval ones, Chick endeavors to become an artist and creates an even more wonderful masterpiece.