tattooing

Explores the history of tattoo art around the world, offering insight into the methods and designs used by different cultures, the symbolism involved in tattoos, and the role of tattoo art in various cultural traditions.

Presents an introduction to tattoos and body piercing, providing information on their history, related health issues, related legal issues, including a discussion of how they can be removed, and why people get body art in the first place. Includes photographs.

Kayla is ostracized at school because she refused to get the required tattooed bar code and now she and her family must run to avoid the dangers threats against them.

Offers readers an intriguing perspective into the culture of tattooing and the reasons why people worldwide choose to get them. The perspective that readers gain can potentially alter their decision to get a tattoo themselves.

Kayla's life and her freedom are threatened when she refuses to get the bar code tattoo.

In a future world, a teen named Leora, who hopes to become a tattooist, must face dark secrets from her family's past in order to move forward into her own happy future.

Offers readers perspective into the reasons why people choose to get tattoos and other types of body art.

"In 2005, when Angela Hovak Johnston heard that the last Inuk woman tattooed in the traditional way had died, she set out to tattoo herself and learn how to tattoo others. What was at first a personal quest became a project to bring the art of traditional tattooing back to Inuit women across Nunavut, starting in the community of Kugluktuk. Collected in this . . . book are . . . photos and stories from more than two dozen women who participated in Johnston's project"--Back cover.

"Miranda Kane is finally beginning to harness her magical powers, but when a near death experience leaves her with a mysterious tattoo she goes on the hunt for answers, just as her sister disappears"--OCLC.

A father tells his young son the story behind each of his tattoos.