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Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 586 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alphabetically arranged entries for film adaptations provide the date of release, the production company, and the director and screenwriter, and discusses the plot of each film.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (approximately 4 hr.) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows the story of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips who blackmails the most popular students in his school into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and eventually become the editor of The New Yorker.
At once laugh-out-loud funny, deliciously dark, and remarkably smart, Struck By Lightning unearths the dirt...
3) Fire-Starter
Author
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Charlie, an eight-year-old girl, has the ability to start fires by pyrokinesis. Now a government agency is after her and wants to use her as a weapon.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (288 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
National Lampoon's Vacation: A suburban Chicago family travels across the United States and encounters a series of disasters.
National Lampoon's European Vacation: When the Griswolds win a two-week vacation in Europe they have no idea the havoc they will create.
Vegas Vacation: The Griswolds have a series of comedic adventures when they spend their family vacation in Las Vegas.
6) Open Range
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Collector's Edition ; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs, R, (ca. 139 min.) : sd., color, closed captioned; 4 3/4 in. + 1 index guide.
Language
English
Description
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (499 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Batman: A young boy who witnesses his parents' murder grows up to become Batman, a masked and emotionally disturbed vigilante who battles against an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
Batman returns: Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces: the bizarre, sinister Penguin and the slinky, mysterious Catwoman. Can Batman battle two formidable foes at once?
Batman forever: Robin has teamed up with Batman, and this time evil is in the guise of...
8) Far north
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Epic thriller about a battle for survival, unexpected passion, and the temptation of revenge. Haunted by a violent past, Saiva and Anja share an isolated, brutal existence in the desolate Arctic tundra.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, Anna, a young dreamer, must team up with Kristoff, a daring mountain man, and his reindeer on the grandest of journeys to find Anna's sister, the Snow Queen Elsa, and put an end to her icy spell. Encountering mystical trolls, a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes, and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction. In this...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tight knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined to carve her own path in life, a skilled archer named Princess Merida defies a sacred age-old custom--and inadvertently unleashes a beastly curse upon the kingdom. To set things right, Merida embarks on a perilous quest and discovers the meaning of true bravery.
12) In love and war
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen and fullscreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Ernie Hemingway lied about his age to participate in World War I and ended up in the ambulance corps. He fell in love with a nurse but it was ill fated.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he learns he is the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, Percy Jackson sets out to recover the bolt, prove his innocence, and prevent a war between the gods that could destroy the Earth.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As scientists still struggle to understand the alien technology discovered on the far side of the moon during the 1969 moon mission, the Autobots and Decepticons contend to discover the secrets of the craft that might tilt the war in their favor.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs, PG-13, (ca. 178 min.) : sd., color, closed captioned; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the land of Middle Earth, young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is entrusted with the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron and with a fellowship of eight others, embarks on a quest to destroy it.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
18) Moneyball
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Language
English
Description
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is forced to rebuild his small-market team on a limited budget. Beane develops a roster of misfits and along the way, forever changes the way the game is played.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2004, the Academy Award–nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Milles Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees don't endorse Rusesabagina's version of the events.
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20) Battle for Naboo
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The droid army is coming and Queen Amidala and her people must join forces with Gungans to reclaim their home planet of Naboo before it's too late! Young readers will learn all about the characters, weapons, and vehicles from the climatic battle of Episode I in Star Wars: Battle for Naboo from Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, to the dark side of the Force with the return of the Sith!"--Publisher.