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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence."--Page 4 of cover.
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own...
5) Anastasia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001, c1997
Language
English
Description
Animated musical tale of Anastasia, a princess of Russia's Romanoff family who survives assassination and finally flees to Austria.
6) Frankenstein
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Description
Tampering with life and death, Dr. Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to create a human monster.
7) Doll face
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Burlesque star `Doll Face' Carroll publishes her autobiography entitled `Genius De Milo' and then goes on to star in a Broadway show based on it. She tries to make it big on Broadway as a musical comedy star, struggling her way to the top with the help of her boyfriend.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Reed confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague he must find and inoculate the killers.
9) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.
10) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
12) A dog year
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jon Katz is a writer at a mid-life crossroads who decides to adopt and train a high-strung border collie named Devon, only to discover it's he himself who has the real lessons to learn. Based on a true story.
13) City of Ember
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the streetlamps fade - along with the hopes of the townspeople. Now it will be up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient builders to find the way out of Ember before their world is plunged into complete darkness.
15) Frankenstein
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster in his laboratory but his dreams of perfection are thwarted when the monster becomes an uncontrollable beast.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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Description
Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who cares for nothing beyond his ledger book, learns the true meaning of Christmas when he is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, and the spirits of Christmas past, present, and yet-to-come.
Old Ebenezer Scrooge, the meanest miser in London, is visited one Christmas eve by three spirits who change his life forever. George C. Scott stars as Scrooge in this critically acclaimed version of Charles Dickens' holiday classic....
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], ©2007
Language
English
Description
Follows a struggling film producer as his personal and professional lives decline.
Ben is an overburdened movie producer. He tries to balance his life and has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his ice-queen studio head, and a menagerie of various Hollywood prima donnas. Ben manages to take it all in stride. He copes by exuding a smoothly assuring demeanor. The only thing that really seems to upset Ben is when he discovers that...
18) Rising sun
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A Los Angeles cop is called in to investigate the murder of a prostitute in the boardroom of a Japanese-owned company, only to discover a "shadow world" of futuristic technology, ancient ways and confusing loyalties.
19) Rapunzel's tale
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on the Disney film Tangled, this is the story of Rapunzel who has been hidden away in a tall tower for 18 years. But then Flynn Rider climbs through her window and the two have many adventures. What will happen to Rapunzel's hair with magical powers?
20) Fantastic voyage
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure. With only sixty minutes to complete their mission, the scientists find themselves fighting off an attack by white corpuscles,...
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