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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Jane Austen's classic tale of love overcoming preconceptions centers on the two eldest daughters of the Bennet family: Jane and Elizabeth. Elizabeth has to fend off an unwelcome offer of marriage from the Rev. Collins, while mistakenly falling for the charms of the dashing Mr. Wickham, before realizing that appearances are deceptive and that her prejudice against Mr. Darcy has blinded her to his real character.
3) The holiday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Johnny gets engaged to the girl of his dreams, only to find out she's a millionaire's daughter whose father wants to be in control of their lives. Add to that a sister who is falling for Johnny, and he needs to decide who to marry and what to do.
Publisher
BBC Video
Language
English
Description
Story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 19th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility. Attracted to a man already promised to another, Elinor suffers silently to keep scandal away from her family. Marianne enjoys a flirtation with a handsome scoundrel that could lead...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined...
6) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young girl cathces her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will irrevocably change the course of all their lives forever.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of author Mary Ann Evans), published in 1860. The novel was originally published in three parts. It was very successful and was adapted into a film as early as 1937. It was Eliot's second novel and one of her most successful of all time. The novel tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg's, England....
8) Little women
Series
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their...
9) Cranford
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of life in a quiet English country town in the mid-nineteenth century follows the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters living in reduced circumstances.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy decide to play hide-and-seek, and during the game Lucy discovers a mysterious wardrobe. She tucks herself inside and backs to the rear of the cabinet, there she finds herself in an entirely different world. The place is called Narnia, and it's been locked in winter for over 100 years by someone known as "The White Witch."
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The peaceful life of two aging sisters is dramatically changed when they take in a young Polish violinist whom they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home.
13) Little women
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the humorous and sentimental fortunes of the four March sisters as they grew into young ladies during the harsh times of the Civil war.
14) Howards end
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger." When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home-Howards End-to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes...
Author
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Edition
Keepsake edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (506 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Georgian England, where affairs of the heart are an exquisite game, and marriage the ultimate prize. But Elizabeth Bennet spirited, independent, and one of five unmarried sisters, is determined to wed for love, not money or privilege. Featuring over an hour of never-before-seen bonus features.
17) Little women
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of four sisters who share their loves, their joys, and their sorrows.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the lively, precocious and very eligible Bennet girls captures all the nuances of 19th century life among the English gentry, a society obsessed with profitable marriage contracts.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.
20) Cranford
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (291 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and, above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her demurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move...
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