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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780439112031
ISBN number: 0439112036
Label: Scholastic Press
Manufacturer: Scholastic Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 176
Printing Date: July 01, 2002
Publishing house: Scholastic Press
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 1451708
Studio: Scholastic Press
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Twelve-year-old Aurora is an artist like her father. Through a hundred drawing lessons he guided her hand, trained her eye, thught her how to mix colors and achieve perspective. Together they pplan to paint a beautiful mutral for Rory's mother... maybe showing a sunset, to make up for the ones Mom misses because she's at her job, supporting the family. But when Rory goes to show her father a sketch for themural she finds him embracing his model. Outraged, she tries to hurt him by burning up her sketchbook, Soon after, he leaves, and Rory knows her anger drove him away.
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I got this book from a friend and I loved reading it.
It makes you wonder what on earth is going to happen subsequent and it's very interesting to read.
I love this book!
I would reccomend this book to anyone who wants to understand the tough things in life and how to fix them.
You should read this book no matter how old you are.
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Rory is a high-school student and a talented artist. The artistic part isn't surprising--her father is a painter and has been teaching Rory how to draw and paint since she was a very small child. Her happiest memories involve her father and art. So it is especially devastating when Rory finds her father kissing another woman. When he leaves her and her mother, Rory feels like it is her fault for confronting him and being so angry.
With her father gone, Rory loses her ability to draw or paint. She tries to remember the things he taught her, but she can't hear his voice any longer. It seems she may never regain her artistic abilities, unless her father agrees to come home again.
This story has a good premise, but I felt like it was too short to really address how Rory would be okay again. Being able to talk to her father would certainly help, but I think she would also have to focus on her relationship with her mother. Both of them were broken after her father left, and in order to get their lives back they would have to learn to rely on each other more. Nothing in this story dealt with that relationship. Instead, the author made it seem like Rory would be fine as long as she had her father's support, regardless of her mother's state of mind.
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I thought that this was an okay book. It's definitely not one of my favorites, and I wouldn't really recommend it. There are some things I liked about it and some things that I didn't like about it.
One reason I didn't like it was because in the opening scene, the main character (Rory) was outside watching her dad cut down a tree in their yard and she was talking about how great the tree was. And when I very first started reading it, I was like "okay, she must really like that tree," but after about 20 pages of her talking about this tree, you get annoyed and don't want to read it anymore. The only reason I kept reading it was because it was for school and it was incredibly easy to read so I kept reading. I also didn't like it because I didn't think that the author described things in the book too well. When I read a book I like to know what each character looks like but in this story she really didn't give much to what the people and environment were like. I also didn't like how they kept talking about drawing and how to draw and everything, so that got kind of boring.
So I finished the book. And it didn't get much better. But there were some things I kind of liked about it. For most of the book, I could really relate to what Rory was going through. I think most girls have a friend that they start to lose, and most teenage girls have an off-and-on relationship with her parents, so that's why I kept reading. The way the author had the girls act around boys and teachers and their parents is very realistic so I think anybody reading it knows exactly what the characters in the book are going through. I think that teenage girls who love to draw would like this book.
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Drawing Lesson are about a little girl named Rory and her dad was teaching her how to see the colour and light to painting.. But one day Rorys dad left and Rory and her dad were going to paint a mural for Rory mother for her birthday. But when it came around to her birthday Her dad left Rory and Rory Drawing lesson that her dad was going to give Rory thought she wasnt going to get the lesson that he told her..
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Drawing Lessons by Tracy Mack tells about girl named Rory. She lives with her two parents and has a best friend named Nicole. Rory and her father both love to paint, and do it all the time. One day Rory finds out that her father is seeing another woman. Rory's father leaves the house, and Rory becomes very depressed. She stops drawing and painting all together, and when Nicole gets a boyfriend, Rory feels very left out and hurt. The characters and plot are perfect for the story line. This is a surprising story and I would definately reccomend it to any of my friends.
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