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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Recognizing how common it is for crafters to start many projects and finish few, a group of women join together to form a guild-Unfinished Projects Anonymous-to keep each other on track and accountable. Three of the friends are tasked with the job of home visits for their guild. Laughingly called "the Cartel," they snoop around craft rooms and knitting baskets to report on progress for the members. They even expand their mission to include checking...
3) Gone gull
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meg Langslow is spending the summer at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, helping her grandmother Cordelia run the studios. But someone is committing acts of vandalism, threatening to ruin the newly-opened center's reputation. Is it the work of a rival center? Have the developers who want to build a resort atop Biscuit Mountain found a new tactic to pressure Cordelia into selling? Or is the real target Meg's grandfather, who points out that any number...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes school can be scary and even embarrassing, but not today. Today is Birdie's birthday, and everything will be perfect! Birdie's panda-riffic cupcakes are beautiful, and there's one for everyone. She will be the star of the class. But then...disaster! A trip and fall on the way to school means no more cupcakes! Who can save the day? Who can make the class smile again? This is a job for Birdie's alter ego...the amazing crafty cat! After a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although she's taken an interest in Irish embroidery, Marcy cannot help but abandon her needlecraft when handsome local brewer Todd finds himself accused of murder. During a St. Patrick's Day party at the pub, a gunshot causes a commotion, leading the police to the back room where Todd and his friend Blake are standing with the body of their former fraternity brother and a smoking gun. Marcy is determined to prove the culprit was someone else, but...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elijah Miller is a quiet and painfully shy man with a talent for carving the handmade toys and furniture that tourists in the Amish shops love. The large, boisterous Miller family is anything but shy. With a thriving auction business, they want him to do what he hates most: taking the stage and calling the auctions. He loves his family and wants to support them, but will they allow room for Elijah to follow his own dream? Bonnie Yoder began the Homespun...
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Francisco extraña a su pueblo en El Salvador, y especialmente volar una cometa con sus amigos, pero Mamá no puede permitirse el lujo de comprar una cometa, por lo que reúne a los materiales alrededor de su edificio de apartamentos descartado y hace su propia, lo que llama la atención del dueño de una tienda y conduce a un proyecto maravilloso.
Francisco misses his village in El Salvador, and especially flying a kite with his friends, but Mamá...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a family through one day and muses in the possibilities that the day holds--from enjoying treats at the bakery, to admiring handmade goods from local artisan shops, to observing the new construction in town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the head of a bustling crafting retreat, Cora Chevalier could use a break of her own. So she and her creative cohorts temporarily swap small-town Indigo Gap for the Sea Glass Island Craft Retreat, where they teach classes and create beachy crafts like shell mosaics and sea glass chimes. Cora and her boyfriend Adrian are enchanted by their surroundings--especially the stunning wedding and blissful newlyweds they encounter on the beach. But awe...
Author
Series
My weirder-est school volume 8
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Principal Klutz has invited a special guest to Ella Mentry School. Her name is Miss Aker, and she's going to show A.J. and his friends how to create cool things out of materials like balloons, straws, and even Popsicle sticks! But what happens when they make a robot so smart, it plans to rule the world? Can anyone stop it?!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Anastasia Pollack's gambling-addicted husband permanently cashes in his chips in Vegas, her life craps out. Anastasia's job as crafts editor at American woman magazine makes life even stickier when she discovers the dead body of über-ambitious fashion editor Marlys Vandenburg hot-glued to Anastasia's office chair. When evidence surfaces of an illicit affair between Marlys and Anastasia's husband, Anastasia becomes the prime suspect. Can she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's a new crossing guard in town named Marie who needs a bit of help making friends, a fun substitute teacher for Miss Lois, and most exciting, Grace and Mimi are going to have their own table at the craft fair"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Overdue bills and constant mother vs. mother-in-law battles at home are bad enough. But crafts editor Anastasia Pollack's stress level is maxed out when she and her fellow American Woman editors get roped into unpaid gigs for a revamped morning TV show. Before the glue is dry on Anastasia's mop dolls, morning TV turns crime drama when the studio is trashed and the producer is murdered. Former co-hosts Vince and Monica--sleazy D-list celebrities--stand...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amy loves craft time at school, but when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don't think it's a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right--none of them feels like hers"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Series
Woodland friends volume 3
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Winter Warmup nears, Squirrel discovers that her favorite sweater no longer fits, but her friends' efforts to help all fail, until Porcupine gives her an idea. Includes directions for making a no-sew pillow.
18) Crafty Chloe
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Chloe is very good at sewing and crafts and when her best friend's birthday approaches, she creates a fabulous gift but also saves the day for a classmate who had been unkind to her.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Donkey Hodie and her friends are ready to create an awesome piece of art, but they run into a problem. They've all gotten stuck to a big, gooey glue bottle! Can Donkey Hodie get them out of this sticky situation?