(0)Ben Kingsley
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
I’ve had a most amazing time....”So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau. During six...
3) Buddhism
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Buddhism's history, philosophy and teachings presented through the epic story of Siddhartha Gotama. See how different cultures have adapted the teachings of Buddha.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When young squire Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet, he believes it holds gold that he can use to pay for his knighthood. Instead of finding a comet, Gareth finds the dragon Drago who has fallen to earth and is being hunted by an evil sorcerer. After Drago saves Gareth's life, the two become intricately bonded and they must work together to defeat the sorcerer and stop his reign of terror. Along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being...
6) Hinduism
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Learn how and why Hinduism has survived as one of the oldest and largest world religions, with nearly a billion followers located mostly in India. Hinduism encompasses wide practices and traditions largely due to its great capacity to integrate the new with the old. Students will learn about the descendants of the Indus River Valley, whos, around 1500 B.C.E., used Sanskrit to transcribe their daily rituals and customs. Students will also discover...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
p1993, 2000
Language
English
Description
This heart-warming film is based on the true story of a young boy who is a chess prodigy and his father, who attempts to walk the fine line between encouraging his son's talent, and preserving the love they have for each other.
11) Shutter Island
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
It's a race against time when a rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) reluctantly teams up with a rival princess (Gemma Arterton) to safeguard a magical dagger that gives its possessor the power to reverse time and rule the world.
14) Self/less
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
15) Bugsy
Author
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
During the 1940's, mobster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is inspired by his mistress Virginia Hill to follow his dream and build the now-famous Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
16) Ender's Game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2014]
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A freelance knight turns against the tyrant king he tutored as a boy by teaming with the last dragon on earth; an orphaned stable boy discovers the world's last living dragon and realizes his dream of becoming a knight can come true; after saving a dragon's life, Gareth and the dragon work together to defeat the sorcerer and stop his reign of terror; when King Gareth dies his potential heirs, twin grandchildren who possess the dragon's unique strengths,...
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization controlled by his father, a man who gained immortality and the desire for unlimited power when he acquired an ancient artifact centuries ago.
20) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Director Roman Polanski offers a slightly darker version of the classic Charles Dickens tale. After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever.
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