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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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: A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall

A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall By Jasmine Warga New York: Harper, 2024. Fiction. 211 pages. A painting has been stolen from the Penelope L. Brooks Museum and sixth-grader Rami Ahmed is worried he's the main suspect. His mother works at the museum as the lead custodian and Rami spends a lot of time hanging out at the museum while she works. On the day the painting went missing, the only people there were the security guard Ed, the cleaning crew, and Rami. Then, a mysterious girl appears in the museum. She floats around from room to room and only Rami can see her -- and she looks exactly like the girl from the missing painting. To prove his innocence and help figure out who the floating girl is, Rami partners up with an aspiring sleuth at school named Veda and the two dive into unexpected situations as they try to solve the mystery. This is a cozy mystery that is focused mostly on characters and ambiance and only a little on the mystery itself. Don't read this book if yo...

Review: The Amazing Generation

The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World Written by Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price Illustrated by Cynthia Yuan Cheng New York: Rocky Pond Books, 2025. Informational. 226 pages. In a kid-friendly adaptation of his best-selling book, The Anxious Generation , Jonathan Haidt teams up with Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone , to bring the power of good information directly to the hands of those that this issue affects most directly — kids on the cusp of getting their own smartphones. The book presents information about the drawbacks of having a smartphone and social media too soon in clear and easy-to-understand language, with eye-catching graphics and pop-outs. Throughout the book, quotes from real teens and young adults, called screen "rebels" by the authors, emphasize the points the authors are trying to make. Fictional characters are featured throughout in a graphic novel story, which further emphasizes the po...

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