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1) Hamlet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.
2) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
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Description
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged organs and body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. As the creature educates itself and learns how cruel mankind can be to something that they deem monstrous, he demands that Victor make him a companion, an Eve to his Adam. When Victor refuses, his...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fern is a young farm girl who rescues the runt, Wilbur. Wilbur the pig is saved from certain death and Fern visits him every day at her Uncle Homer's farm. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house." Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.
4) True Grit
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
6) The ring
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his wealthy grandfather dies, a spoiled young man's "inheritance" sends him on an improbable journey of discovery, having to answer the ultimate question: "What is the relationship between wealth and happiness?"
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005]
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eighty-three-year-old war veteran spends his days maintaining the rides at an amusement park. When he attempts to save the life of an injured five-year-old girl, he finds himself in Heaven, with five people who have been waiting to see him.
10) Big fish
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Bloom is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward - outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property.
11) Shrek the third
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Shrek married Fiona the last thing he had in mind was becoming the next King of Far Far Away. But when Shrek's father-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, that is exactly what he faces. Recruiting Donkey and Puss in Boots for a new quest, Shrek sets out to bring back the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile back in the kingdom, Fiona's jilted Prince Charming storms the city with an army of fairy tale villains to seize the throne. Fiona and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a visiting actress becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert. And when Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectmen, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. He recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth.
14) Flatliners
Language
English
Description
An ambitious, charismatic medical student persuades two classmates to take part in an experiment to determine if there is life after death. Their horror begins when they realize that although they've come back alive, they haven't come back alone.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families...
16) The book thief
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
17) Max
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.
18) A separate peace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the Second World War. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome,...
19) The fountain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1,000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Tom is a man who is devoted to one woman, Izzi, and becomes determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence.
20) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
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