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"Meet Nikki Maxwell! She's starting eighth grade at a new school--and her very first diary packed with hilarious stories and art. . . Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever: her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone, meeting her new soon-to-be BFFs Chloe and Zoey, falling for adorably sweet crush Brandon, dealing with her zany little sister Brianna's antics--and the immediate clashes with mean girl MacKenzie, who becomes Nikki's rival in a schoolwide...
2) Art dog
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When the Mona Woofa is stolen from the Dogopolis Museum of Art, a mysterious character who calls himself Art Dog tracks down and captures the thieves.
4) Ellie
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When zookeeper Walt announces that the zoo will have to close, all of the animals pitch in to try to save their home, but it's Ellie the elephant who reveals a talent that just may keep the zoo open for good.
7) Art & Max
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Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.
10) The orange shoes
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Delly Porter enjoys the feel of soft dirt beneath her feet as she walks to and from school, but after a classmate makes her feel ashamed of having no shoes she learns that her parents and others, too, see value in things that do not cost money.
11) Suitcase
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Despite his love of drawing and his feelings of inadequacy as an athlete, sixth-grader Xander "Suitcase" Bingham works to become a baseball player to win the approval of his father.
12) Saffy's angel
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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 momento of her past.
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Pigasso, a talented pig, and Mootisse, an artistic bull, live across the road from one another, but when conflicts arise they build fences that ultimately become modern art masterpieces. Includes biographies of the real-life artists, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
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The dragon lady Miss Drake is shocked when her new human pet, precocious Winnie, seems to believe that she--the dragon--is her pet. Miss Drake sets about showing Winnie that things are really the other way around--but then Winnie's sketches of San Francisco's fantastic, mysterious creatures come to life and escape into the city's streets.
18) Masterpiece
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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 an Albrecht Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Nikki Maxwell no se sorprende cuando descubre que el chico de sus suenos, Brandon, trabaja como voluntario en un refugio para animales del vecindario. El es un chico tan dulce, que por supuesto, no duda en ayudar a esos perritos adorables! Cuando Brandon le comenta que el refugio esta en peligro y que pueden cerrarlo, Nikki va a hacer todo lo posible para que eso no suceda. Asi que, junto a sus amigas, Chloe y Zoey, se apuntaran a la competicion de...
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"Based on author-illustrator John Parra's own experience helping with his father's landscape architecture business and how it inspired him to become an artist, this deceptively simple story celebrates hard work, the bond between a father and son, and the profound links between nature and art, creativity and autonomy. Today is a big day: it's the first time Juanito gets to help his papi on the job as a landscape architect. Juanito never goes anywhere...