Book Topics: The Arts

Book Recommendations by Theme are listed here in order to help teachers, book club organizers, and other readers find books organized around a common principle, or big idea. Please see the Main Page List of Themes for more categories, as well as Book Lists by Topic

Dance, Speech, and Drama

Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood - Bollywood films
Amina's Voice - speech contest
Finding Perfect - poetry slam
A Gift of Magic - dance - ballet
Gracefully Grayson - drama
The Seventh Wish - Irish dancing
Short - drama - The Wizard of Oz
Speechless - speech contest
Sprinkles and Secrets - acting (commercials)
Surviving the Applewhites - musical theatre

A Time to Dance - Bharatanatyam - Indian Classical dance
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet - drama
Unfamous - acting
The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

Music

Amina's Voice - singing, piano
Bionic - rock band
Blackbird Fly - guitar
Blended - piano
Bud, Not Buddy - 1930s blues band
A Crooked Kind of Perfect - organ
Echo - harmonica, violin, piano, recorder
The First Rule of Punk - band
Frosting and Friendship - rock band
Garvey's Choice - choir
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus - guitar

Rachel Spinelli Punched Me in the Face - brass
Small Steps - pop star
Notes from an Accidental Band Geek - brass
The Pros of Cons - percussion
The Sweetest Sound - singing, gospel, church choir
The Trumpet of the Swan - brass
Under a Painted Sky - violin
Unidentified Suburban Object - violin

Visual Arts

Awkward -  drawing, comic books
Circa Now - photography
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip - photography
The First Rule of Punk - 'zines: journaling/collage
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - silent films
Masterpiece - drawing
New Kid - drawing, comic books
The One and Only Ivan - painting

Piecing Me Together - mixed media collage
Salt to the Sea    - art restoration
Shooting Kabul - photography
A Single Shard - pottery
Speak - mixed media
Under the Egg - paintings, monuments men
The Writing on the Wall  - graffiti

Writing

Anything But Typical
Bad Boy - author memoir
Brown Girl Dreaming - author memoir
Finding Perfect - Slam Poetry

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus - blogger
Locomotion - poetry
One True Way - journalism
The Pros of Cons - fan fiction
Sahara Special - journaling
A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius