Danny DeVito
Author
Language
English
Description
In this black-comedy spin-off of Alfred Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, a writing student tries to persuade his instructor to "trade murders"...he will murder the instructor's ex-wife if the instructor will return the favor and kill his demented, domineering mother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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Description
Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.
5) Migration
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mallard family is in a bit of a rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids - teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen - the whole wide world. After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family trip, via New York City, to tropical Jamaica.
7) Hercules
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taken from the gods as a newborn and adopted on earth, Hercules is just an awkward pillar of strength trying to fit in. What he wants most is to impress his father Zeus. When Hercules discovers Hades' sinister plot to take over Mount Olympus, he goes from zero to hero and, with the help of his pals Pegasus and Phil, discovers that real strength comes from the heart!
8) Smallfoot
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bright young yeti finds something he thought didn't exist: a human. News of this throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all-new story about friendship, courage, and the joy of discovery.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A Musical Romance starring Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei, Robert Carlyle and John Goodman that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Frank has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. En route to fulfill a forty-year promise to his childhood sweetheart, the stranger shares a compelling tale of adolescent love replete with first...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the...
12) The Lorax
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In search of a real, live tree, a twelve-year-old boy pays a visit to the reclusive Once-ler, who tells him the story of the grumpy, yet charming Lorax, who tried to protect the forest by speaking up on behalf of the trees.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets...
14) Matilda
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Special edition ; full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Matilda is a super-smart little girl who's misunderstood by her parents, brother, and evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.
15) Ruthless people
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When loathesome millionaire Sam Stone's wife is kidnapped by inept kidnappers, Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam celebrates!
16) The Lorax
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
17) Living Out Loud
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judith Nelson, newly divorced, is consumed by vindictive fantasies of her ex and his young bride. Her life is empty until she finds unexpected companionship in a bold and sassy Jazz singer.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is upon us and the Paddy's gang has got the spirit. Well, not really. For them, the holidays have always been a time of trickery, backstabbing, and disappointment. But this year things are going to be different as they are determined to rediscover the joy in Christmas.
Publisher
Columbia (Usa)
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 314 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Annie: Adaptation of the classic story of a little orphan girl who is adopted by a wealthy man to whom she teaches the riches of the heart.; Madeline: Adaptation of the classic book about twelve little orphaned schoolgirls and their teacher.; Matilda: An intelligent child is oppressed by both her monstrous parents and awful school principal. She befriends her nice teacher and learns to unleash telekinetic powers to drive her principal away.
20) Dumbo
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Circus owner Max Medici enlists former star Holt Farrier and his children to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere, who recruits the Dumbo for his newest entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer,...