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Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
"City streets abound with billboards, posters, and corporate advertising that almost invite a subversive response . . . and increasingly are getting one. Many of today's graffiti artists have adopted the stencil and spray can, and are using the street as a giant creative forum for their arresting artwork. "The image," says San Diego artist Shepard Fairey, "is integrated with the texture of the street."".
"Tristan Manco has chosen over 400 of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
An eccentric French shopkeeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian segregation wall in the West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film.
Author
Description
A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want, money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman's past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn't know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious...
6) Shadowshaper
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sierra Santiago’s first week of summer was supposed to be sun-soaked and fun-filled; instead, the murals in her neighborhood seem to be coming to life and a zombie-looking dude crashes the first big party. As if that wasn’t enough, her normally comatose abuelo is spewing out cryptic warnings. As Sierra delves deeper into the mysteries of her changing Bed-Stuy neighborhood and an age old magic that brings art to life, she becomes immersed in an...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
The city is alive with vibrant art in every corner of the parks, the shops, the trains. But most people are too busy to see it—or worse, choose to ignore it! When three children stop to marvel at the art around their community, they realize it’s up to them to show everyone else how truly special it is when art and reality dance together so seamlessly.
9) Tagged
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A graffiti artist--the Wiz--takes on the city and the mayor in a fight to save the heart of the community.
10) Unfadeable
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
11) Graffiti culture
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduces street painting, describes its history, types, styles, and its destructive aspect.
12) Graffiti
Author
Series
Description
Learn about the history of graffiti, the different kinds of graffiti and more!
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
On city street corners, around telephone posts, through barbed wire fences, and over abandoned cars, a quiet revolution is brewing. "Knit graffiti" is an international guerrilla movement that started underground and is now embraced by crochet and knitting artists of all ages, nationalities, and genders. Its practitioners create works of art out of yarn, then "donate" them to public spaces as part of a covert plan for world yarn domination. This is...
15) Night fall
Author
Series
Quantico files volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Finally free of her troubled upbringing, Alex Donovan is able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. But soon after she becomes a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, authorities in Missouri contact them about bodies found on freight trains - all killed in the same way. Alex never expected to be forced to confront her past in this new job, but she immediately recognizes the graffiti messages the killer is leaving on...
16) El plan de Zee
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Zee is torn between making a statement and making art.
17) Tagged
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Liam, a fourteen-year-old graffiti artist, can't keep his grades up and is threatened by a local gang in the projects of Minneapolis, his mother sends him to Lake Michigan for the summer.
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