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Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes decides to "borrow" his father's crystals to impress his classmates, but his plan to return the crystals before his father notices goes awry.
Author
Language
English
Description
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His...
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 8
Publisher
Viking/Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes of Oak Glen Primary School is looking for a new best friend, and he decides that the best way to find one is to come up with a bunch of amazing things to do at recess--and see who shares in the fun.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback. The film centers on Warner's unique story and years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player, but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support of his wife, Brenda and the encouragement of his family,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Join the expedition visiting legendary Candy Man Willy Wonka in a splendiferous movie that wondrously brings to the screen the endlessly appetizing delights of Roald Dahl's classic book. On a whirlwind tour of Willy's incredible, edible realm of chocolate waterfalls, elfish Oompa-Loompas, and industrial-sized confections, a boy named Charlie will discover the sweetest secret of all: a generous, loving heart.
Language
English
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Description
"Being the adventures of a young man who couldn't resist pretty girls, or a bit of the old ultra-violence, who went to jail, was re-conditioned, and came out a different young man. Or was he?" So might opine your humble narrator, Alex. Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder. Apprehended by the police, Alex is tried, sentenced, and sent to...
12) The ant bully
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When you're as small as an ant, the world is big - and the adventure is bigger! That's what young Lucas learns after he aims his water pistol at some hapless ants. They retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him down to their size.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Max has an active imagination and will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum and runs away from home when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including...
15) The blind side
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
When homeless teenager Michael Oher is given a home by the Touhy family in Memphis, he learns to play football and find success in school, and they discover a new son and brother.
16) The Lorax
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning tale of The Lorax tells the story of the greedy, tree-chopping Once-lers and the brave little Lorax who speaks up for the vanishing forest.
17) Duma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The powerful tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and a courageous young boy named Xan. Xan faces the true test of love when he must cross the wilds of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home.
18) The jazz singer
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Description
A Jewish cantor's son breaks with his family to become a popular music singer.
19) Batman begins
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes. This trauma led him to become obsessed with revenge. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with a ninja cult leader, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City. The City is now overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit...
20) Elf
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...