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Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes sports and entertainment inventions, including the tennis ball, baseball glove, roller coaster, electric guitar, and skateboard.
6) Home fires
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
2 video discs (ca. 6 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Home Fires follows a group of women in a rural English community where the shadow of World War II is casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their loved ones, the women find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Language
English
Description
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
9) Ruby Bridges
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who, in 1960, was the first African-American student to integrate her local elementary school in New Orleans.
10) Sounder
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era Louisiana, an African-American boy sets out to find his father, who has been sent to a labor camp after stealing food for his starving family, and struggles to cope with the shooting death of the faithful family dog.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
2-disc deluxe dance ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, summer vacation is no day at the beach. Thanks to Troy, they are all working at a country club founded by Ryan and Sharpay's family. The club's annual talent show is right around the corner and Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. She dumps Ryan as her singing partner and starts wooing Troy to join her onstage instead. Gabriella is not very happy that Tony agreed to sing with Sharpay, instead of her....
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his "creative side." As if that's not scary enough, Halloween is just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When he discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can Greg get his mom off his back by making a movie... and will he become rich and famous...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four. He was naturally gifted with languages and used this skill as a signals officer in World War I as well as in his fantasy writing. By creating alternate universes and...
14) Freaky Friday
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When a mother, Katherine, and daughter, Ellie, are at the most stressful of times, they can only imagine how the other's problems could be more difficult. Thanks to the magic from their late father's hourglass, their imagination becomes a reality when they switch bodies and see what it's like to be the other person.
15) Descendants 3
Publisher
Disney Channel
Language
English
Formats
Description
The VKs return to the Isle of the Lost to recruit a new batch of villainous offspring to join them at Auradon Prep. When a barrier breach jeopardizes the safety of Auradon during their departure off the Isle, Mal resolves to permanently close the barrier, fearing that nemeses Uma and Hades will wreak vengeance on the kingdom. Despite her decision, an unfathomable dark force threatens the people of Auradon, and it is up to Mal and the VKs to save everyone...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ainsley Galloway and her ten-year-old brother, Tobin, have just moved to the small, picturesque mountain town of Lowry. The town is famously the setting for the blockbuster Legend of Greyhallow trilogy and there are traces of the films wherever they go. Ainley's parents recently bought the film director's former home, which they dream of turning into an inn that caters to fans eager to check out the local Greyhallow Movie Festival....