Display - Books About Jewelry Making

By Christi Friesen

Learn how to create big cats--lions, tigers and pumas--and kittens using polymer clay focal beads, masks and sculptures. Throughout the book, embellishments of beads, fibers, and surface treatments add realistic touches.

Dragons

By Christi Friesen

Dragons is a step-by-step how-to book demonstrating the process of creating dragons from polymer clay. This book will charm you with humorous dialogue, creative suggestions, interesting asides, lavish pictures and even several dragon personality profiles.

Under The Sea
By Christi Friesen
In Under The Sea, you will swim your way through creating sea turtles, fish, sea horses, starfish and other ocean fun, no matter what your skill level. The emphasis is on color, composition and creativity, but the real treat is adding embellishments of pearls, semi-precious stones, shells and beads to your creations.

Welcome to the Jungle
By Christi Friesen
Explore sculpting with polymer clay, no matter what your skill level. You will enjoy making exotic leaves and flowers, furry creatures, bugs and frogs, and add embellishments to your creations, using pearls, semi-precious stones and beads. Includes detailed photos and step-by-step instructions.

Junk Drawer Jewelry
By Rachel Di Salle and Ellen Warwick

The Girls' World Book of Jewelry
By Rain Newcomb

How to Improve at Making Jewelry
By Sue McMillan
A step-by-step guide that shows how to make several different pieces of jewelry, including necklaces, bracelets, and earrings.

Cool Beaded Jewelry
By Pam Scheunemann

Super Simple Jewelry
By Karen Latchana Kenney
Contains directions to make jewelry ranging from button and safety pin bracelets to paper beads and metal washer necklaces.

Fashion Crafts
By Deborah Hufford

Jazzy Jewelry, Pretty Purses, and More!
By Kathy Ross
Step-by-step instructions for twenty-one easy-to-make necklaces, bracelets, headbands, purses, and more.

Beaded Critters
By Sonal Bhatt

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Stand Tall by Joan Bauer

Stand Tall By Siena Siegel by Joan Bauer Putnam, 2002, 182 pgs Realistic Fiction Tree is 12 years old and over 6 feet tall. That would be great if he were a basketball player, but he is not. Dealing with his unusual size is not Tree's only challenge. Tree's parents have recently gone through a divorce, and his grandfather has had his leg amputated as the result of an old Vietnam War injury. The strength of this book is the characterizations. All of the main characters are dimensional and sympathetic. Bauer sets the characters in real and often funny family situations. Best of all is the character of Tree. He is boy with a heart to match his stature. This is a great book for boys or girls ages 9-12, as a read aloud or for individual reading. This book could also be a good Rx book for children whose families are going through divorce, or for anyone who feels like they don't fit in.

Review: The Factory

The Factory By Catherine Egan New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2025. Fiction. 306 pages. Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle has been invited to join the Factory, a secretive research facility in the desert which ostensibly extracts renewable energy from the electromagnetic fields of its young recruits. But Asher soon realizes something sinister is going on. Kids are getting sick. The adults who run the Factory seem to be keeping secrets. And the extraction process is not only painful and exhausting, but existentially troubling. Asher makes a handful of new friends who help him with an investigation that turns into a resistance, which turns into...a cliffhanger! The Factory is a page-turning sci-fi with multidimensional characters, an intriguing plot, and refreshingly straight-forward writing. Egan weaves in detail about climate crises and social unrest, making the story's dystopian setting feel rich and plausible. With its sophisticated themes and accessible storytelling, I would recomm...

Review: Faker

Faker By Gordon Korman New York: Scholastic Press, 2024. Fiction. 214 pages. 12-year-old Trey is used to starting over at a new school -- he has the routine perfectly memorized: make new friends, introduce his dad to the wealthy parents of his new friends, and "Houdini" themselves out of there before they get caught running their latest scam. Trey's dad is a master con artist, and Trey has just been promoted to full-partner. Their new scheme for the next big score brings them to the affluent suburb of Boxelder, TN where Trey's dad has cooked up a fake electric car company for investors to buy into. The only problem is that Trey is starting to grow tired of moving around and never putting down roots, especially after forming a fast friendship with Logan and developing a crush on Kaylee, a socially conscious girl in his class. As Trey longs for a normal life, is there any way he can convince his dad to get out of the family business? Gordon Korman is a perennial favorit...

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