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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Dude, That's Rude! (Get Some Manners) by Pamela Espeland & Elizabeth Verdick

If there's one book today's kids need to read, it is Dude, That's Rude! (Get Some Manners) . The authors provide a fun format for teaching etiquette to children. They discuss proper behavior at home, at school, at other people's homes and in public places. The information is completely up-to-date with cellphone manners and netiquette included. Fun, cartoony illustrations are on practically every page giving the book great visual appeal. This book is perfect for boys and girls in the fourth grade or older. WARNING: Bodily functions are discussed.

Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin

Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin Illustrated by Leslie Evans Charlesburg; 2009; unpaged Faces of the Moon is a short nonfiction book that describes the different phases of the moon and why the moon appears like it does on certain nights. This book is short and sweet so even the youngest of moon lovers will enjoy it. The layout is simplistic and easy to follow. I don’t know much about the moon so I found it very interesting.

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...

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