Chris Columbus
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Hailed as "a breakneck, jam-packed roller coaster of an adventure" by J. K. Rowling, this New York Times bestseller is the first installment in the explosive tween fantasy series by famed Hollywood director Chris Columbus (of Harry Potter fame) and bestselling author Ned Vizzini (It's Kind of a Funny Story).
Siblings Brendan, Eleanor, and Cordelia Walker once had everything they could ever want. But everything changed when Dr. Walker lost
...Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As mystical creatures begin appearing all over America, Brendan, Eleanor, and Cordelia are forced to reenter the book world one last time to stop the two worlds from colliding.
Author
Publisher
Race Point Publishing, A division of Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Hughes allegedly wrote Ferris Bueller's Day Off in four days, Planes, Trains and Automobiles in three days, The Breakfast Club in two days, and Vacation in a week. He never went to film school or studied cinema. And he spent most of his incredible career in the Midwest, far from the Hollywood Hills. John Hughes was indeed one of the most prolific and successful filmmakers in Hollywood history. He helped launch the careers of Andrew McCarthy, Molly...
5) Stepmom
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time-mother, regards Isabel's efforts as offensively insufficient. She can't...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Kevin McCallister is ... ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. ... The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget"--Container.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson join filmmaker Chris Columbus and other esteemed cast members across all eight Harry Potter films as they travel back to Hogwarts for the first time to celebrate the anniversary of the franchise's first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which premiered twenty years ago. The retrospective special will tell an enchanting making-of story through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations,...
8) Pixels
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant saved the world thousands of times, at 25 cents a game in the video arcades. Now, they're going to have to do it for real. In Pixels, when intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth, using the video games as the models for their assaults.
9) Nine months
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Incorporated
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The news that his girlfriend is expecting a baby sends Sam, an unflappable child psychologist, into a panic. Torn between advice given by a well-meaning but over-bearing couple and his confirmed bachelor buddy, Sam is in serious danger of losing his mind and his girlfriend.
10) Home alone
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When eight-year-old Kevin is inadvertently left at home when his family leaves for Paris, he does his best to defend the house against burglars.
11) I kill giants
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imaginative fifth grader Barbara Thorson becomes so immersed in her fantasy world that she believes she kills giants with her magical warhammer Coveleski.
Barbara is the only thing that stands between terrible giants and the destruction of her small town. But as she boldly confronts her fears in increasingly dangerous ways, she begins to question everything she's always believed to be true.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Great news, Kevin McCallister is spending the holidays in New York City. Bad news, his parents are spending them in Florida. Separated once again from his family, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his dad's credit card. But his solo act takes a dangerous turn when the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, escape prison and also land in the Big Apple.
"Great news--Kevin McCallister is spending the holidays in New York City. Bad news--his parents...
14) Rent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Puccini's La Boheme, this story highlights a group of friends struggling in New York's East Village in the 1980s as their lives become less carefree as struggles such as paying the rent and AIDS push into their lives.
15) Pixels
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant saved the world thousands of times, at 25 cents a game in the video arcades. Now, they're going to have to do it for real. In Pixels, when intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth, using the video games as the models for their assaults.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A father waits until Christmas Eve to buy his son the hottest toy of the season. He stops at nothing to get the toy and reunite his family.
Desperate to buy a hot-selling toy, a father endures a frantic last-minute shopping spree on Christmas Eve.
17) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To...
19) The goonies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[[2001-] 1985]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie Bunker's...