Richard Thomas
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen year old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save her. Book #2
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a field trip to Washington, DC, Theo spots a familiar face on the Metro: accused murderer and fugitive Pete Duffy, who jumped bail and was never seen again. Theo's quick thinking helps bring Duffy back to Strattenburg to stand trial. But now that Duffy knows who he is, Theo is in greater danger than he's ever been in before. Even when everything is on the line, Theodore Boone will stop at nothing to make sure a killer is brought to justice."--Back...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clearing his name of the false charges of vandalism and theft that were leveled against him, thirteen-year-old legal maverick Theodore Boone hopes to return to his life of giving advice to friends and community members when an exciting new case demands his urgent attention.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 3
Publisher
Books on Tape, an imprint of Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's been a robbery and Theo is the accused. His reputation is on the line, and with the evidence building against him and dangerous threats looming, Theo will do whatever it takes to prove his innocence even if it means breaking a few rules.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror and sadness. James L. Swanson's Manhunt is a fascinating tale...
Publisher
Questar Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Richard Thomas and Nia Peeples host a holiday special filled with joy and hope of the season. It is a collection of the finest holiday stories from the heartwarming series. See ordinary people share stories of miraculous rescues, life-altering healings, and divine interventions that made their holidays truly memorable. It's the most wonderful time of the year for miracles!
10) The Easter story
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Seen through the eyes of the Apostle Mark, this beautifully animated recreation begins with Jesus' joyful entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Then follows the drama of Christ's betrayal, arrest, and crucifixion - and His triumphant resurrection.
11) Annie's Point
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish, that she set his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. When her son Richard refuses to let his mother make the two thousand-mile trip, she takes off anyway with her free-spirited granddaughter in tow.
Publisher
[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It is set in the 1933 Depression Era and told through the eyes of John Boy, the seventeen-year-old eldest child of John and Olivia Walton. His mother expects John-Boy to help her raise his sisters and brothers, and his father expects him to follow in his footsteps to help support the family, but secretly, John Boy wants to be a writer. Times are hard enough in 1933, but to make matters worse, it looked to be the Waltons' first Christmas without John...
16) IT
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010, c1990
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller about a malevolent force in a small New England town that takes the shape of a clown, terrifying youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing them to untimely doom. A group of neighborhood kids fight back, but thirty years later "It" resurfaces, and is meaner, angrier, and deadlier. The friends who vividly remember "It" terrorizing their youth reunite for a final desperate stand against "It".
Publisher
Cloud Ten Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. An eight year old cancer patient who, during the course of his treatment, manages to shock the world by breaking the Guinness world record by receiving get-well cards, amassing an astounding 1.3 million cards from around the globe.
Publisher
Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Sign of the Beaver - Keith Carradine and Annette O'Toole head an outstanding cast in this gripping coming of age survival saga in the tradition of My Side of the Mountain. A colonial family seeks a new life in the uncharted Maine wilderness in 1768.
The Legend of Tillamook's Gold - Julie (Suzanne Marie Doyon), a lonely fourteen-year-old, is in for the most amazing summer of her life when she finds an ancient coin on the beach and uncovers a local...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
In this realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers Paul Baumer and his school chums are encouraged to enlist by their bombastic, slogan-chanting teacher, but they quickly learn that actual war is more gore than glory, as they crawl through mud, huddle in trenches, suffer the ordeal of frenzied hand-to-hand combat and dodge screaming shells during World War I.