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Author
Publisher
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Born in Mexico City in 1942, Graciela Iturbide wants to be a writer, but her conservative family has a different idea. Although she initially follows their wishes, she soon grows restless. After tragedy strikes, she turns to photography to better understand the world. The photographic journey she embarks on takes her throughout Mexico and around the globe, introducing her to fascinating people and cultures, and eventually bringing her success and...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Regine Stokke began to blog about her day-to-day life shortly after she was diagnosed with leukemia in 2008. Regine's stated purpose with her posts was to give people a sense of "what it's like to live with" such a serious illness, and her blog became an almost instant classic. It was first adapted into book form in 2010, and became a best seller in Norway. Regine was also a very gifted photographer, and had her photos exhibited at both the 2009...
Author
Series
The Superlatives volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When yearbook photographer Harper and the star player of the high school football team get voted "the perfect couple that never was" by their senior class, the unlikely pair start falling for one another. But a handful of obstacles, including Harper's boyfriend, stand in the way of their perfect ending"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"After the sudden death of her mother, Sasha moves in with her grandparents and realizes new truths about herself"--
Southern California. With her mother now dead and father out of the picture, Sasha Bloom moves in with her estranged grandparents. Sasha has no idea who she is anymore. Luckily, her grandparents are certain they know who she should be: A lawyer in the making. Ten pounds skinnier. In a socially advantageous relationship with a boy from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
On February 19, 1945, the largest Marine force ever sent into battle launched an assult on Iwo Jima. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire six men battled to the island's highest peak, after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. This is an account of six very different men who came together in a moment that will live forever.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn't understand Zara's creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn't know how to reach beyond their differences and connect to a closed-off...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Formats
Description
At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Madrid, 1957. Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. He meets Ana Moreno, whose family's interweaving...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. He lets his longtime crush walk all over him. And he's in no hurry to decide on a college path. The only person who ever made him think he could be more was his older brother Patrick. But that was before Patrick died suddenly, leaving Pup with a family who won't talk about it and acquaintances who just keep saying, "sorry for...
9) Endangered
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he's becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
11) Picture perfect
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A gap in his memory the afternoon that his best friend disappears in a redwood forest has a fifteen-year-old photographer wondering about his own role in the mystery, and who he can turn to for help.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
13) Thwonk
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents photographs of the Civil War along with profiles of the major photographers and descriptions of the difficulties they faced while recording the reality of the conflict.
15) Pictures, 1918
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.
Author
Publisher
PUSH/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Ruby's divorced father shows up unexpectedly on her sixteenth birthday, the week that follows is full of confusing surprises, including discovering that her best friend has been keeping secrets from her, her mother has not been truthful about the past, and life is often complicated.
17) Razzle
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, fifteen-year-old Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs.
18) Exposed
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
High school senior Liz, a gifted photographer, can no longer see things clearly after her best friend accuses Liz's older brother of a terrible crime.
19) The photographer
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter's arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders.
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