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1) Costume
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Photographs and text provide information about the history of clothes and fashion, examining clothes, accessories, and ornaments worn by men, women, and children, and discussing the devices employed to obtain a certain look.
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Pub. Date
1952.
Description
A visual survey of dress that covers the fashions of Western man over nearly 5,000 years of recorded history. An encyclopedia of dress styles that begins with the civilization of Ancient Egypt and continues through the 20th century. Includes an extensive section on American costume-Indians and cowboys, tradesmen and office girls, gentlemen of fashion and Klondike prospectors.
5) Turkey Claus
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Santa Claus finds a way to help Turkey avoid becoming Christmas dinner.
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Series
Fairy Bell sisters volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Goldie Bell competes in Queen Titania's Fancy-Dress Party on the Mainland and needs to overcome various obstacles without the support of her sisters"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola, recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In Splat's latest holiday adventure, his "witche's cat" Halloween costume meets with an accident, so his mother uses a spider as inspiration to make him a new one. Unfortunately, his friends Spike and Plank don't even blink when he dons his "big, scary sock spider" costume, and Splat doubts he'll win the school prize for scariest cat.
11) Dress-up Mess-up
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After telling each of her best friends that her costume for The Parade of Books will match theirs, Chloe must come up with a crafty way of making Leo, Emma, and herself happy.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
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"One dress. Four women. An amazing destiny. Charlotte Malone is getting married. Yet all is not settled in the heart of Birmingham's chic bridal boutique owner. Charlotte can dress any bride to perfection-except herself. When she discovers a vintage mint-condition wedding gown in a battered old trunk, Charlotte embarks on a passionate journey to discover the women who wore the gown before her. Emily in 1912. Mary in 1939. And Hillary in 1968. Each...
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Pub. Date
2012
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Imported custom-made clothes were usually beyond the financial reach of the average middle-class American woman of a century ago; and store-bought garments were often of inferior quality. This left many women with the options of making their own clothes or hiring a seamstress.
While a number of economy-minded women did sew simple housedresses, and clothing for their children, many took favorite fashion plates to a dressmaker who would often consult...
While a number of economy-minded women did sew simple housedresses, and clothing for their children, many took favorite fashion plates to a dressmaker who would often consult...
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"Three plucky women lift the spirits of homefront brides in wartime Britain, where clothes rationing leaves little opportunity for pomp or celebration-even at weddings-in this heartwarming novel based on true events, from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. After renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the London Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled decades...
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Henry and Mudge books volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While Henry's parents are at a Sweetheart Dance on Valentine's Day, he and his dog Mudge have a wonderful time staying at Mrs. Hopper's house, where they enjoy tea and music and dressing up in various costumes.
16) Spooky Pookie
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Little Pookie tries to decide what is the perfect costume for this Halloween.
18) Turkey trouble
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Turkey nervously makes a series of costumes, disguising himself as other farm animals in hopes that he can avoid being served as Thanksgiving dinner.
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Pub. Date
2017
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Cosplayers rejoice!The Hero's Closet is the ultimate DIY guide to creating unique and fantastical homemade costumes
This essential handbook offers detailed, step-by-step instructions that cover the basics of sewing costumes (which often require skills not found in standard sewing guides) to help even the most novice sewists create the costumes of their dreams. A skilled crafter and avid cosplayer, Gillian Conahan walks readers through
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Native American arts and crafts are enjoying renewed appreciation and increasing recognition as a vital part of America's cultural heritage. This volume, a magnificent collection of full-color photographs and incisive commentary, presents the richness and celebrates the diversity of this centuries-old tradition and places it within a larger historical and social context. The artistic tradition explored in this book emerged as the snows of the last...