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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The true story of Vinnie Ream's courage and persistence in the service of art, and in the service of a friend."--Dust jacket, front flap. This book tells the story of Vinnie Ream, an aspiring artist living in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, who gained a reputation as a sculptor and succeeded in persuading President Abraham Lincoln to sit for her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is the story of how a farmboy became America's foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney's swift prose and Fields's evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts....
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