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
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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 |
That Thing About Bollywood - Bollywood films
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
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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 Maybe He Just Likes You - band (trumpet) Notes from an Accidental Band Geek - brass The Pros of Cons - percussion Scout is Not a Band Kid - concert band Sparrow - rock band, bass The Sweetest Sound - singing, gospel, church choir The Trumpet of the Swan - brass Under a Painted Sky - violin Unidentified Suburban Object - violin |
Visual Arts
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After Iris - film making
Awkward - drawing, comic books Circa Now - photography Count Me In - photography Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip - photography Ellen Outside the Lines - Barcelona architecture, art The First Rule of Punk - 'zines: journaling/collage Hey, Kiddo - drawing, comic books The Invention of Hugo Cabret - silent films Lights, Camera, Disaster - film making Masterpiece - drawing A Match Made in Mehendi - henna designs 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
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Anything But Typical
Bad Boy - author memoir Best Friends - author memoir, fiction writing Brown Girl Dreaming - author memoir Finding Perfect - Slam Poetry The Handbook for Dragon Slayers - documentarian |
I Kill the Mockingbird - love for literature
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 |
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