Mara Wilson
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
""Growing up, I wanted to BE Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight." --Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City "Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking, Where Am I Now? reminds you that no matter how unique your life is, some things bind us all together." --Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy A former child actress best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and...
2) Matilda
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Matilda is a super-smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents, her brother, and an evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Diesel # 10 has devious plans to dominate the other engines by finding and crushing their dwindling supply of magical gold dust. Lilly has a hunch that her grandfather holds the key to rescuing the little trains in his workshop on Muffle Mountain.
4) Matilda
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Matilda uses her telekentic powers to get even with her parents, her brother and the evil school principal and also helps her friends and a caring teacher.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When Anabel wished for a fairy-godmother, she never dreamed his name would be Murray. They have until midnight to rescue her dad, battle a wicked witch and recover stolen magic wands to restore the world to a place where wishes really can come true.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Language
English
Description
Updated version of the 1947 Christmas classic. Six year old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. This title has been repackaged.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
1947: The real Santa is hired by Macy's to play the department store's Santa in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but has to prove in court that he is who he says he is.
1994: Remake of the 1947 movie in which Kris Kringle (Attenborough), while working at Macy's, encounters an unbelieving child (Wilson) and goes on trial to prove he is Santa.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack. But Millie's determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it's (really) too late--and hopefully reassure herself of love's lasting...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A rich and riveting debut marrying centuries-old folklore to twenty-first-century queer literary fiction, City of Laughter spans four generations of Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an eighteenth century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to bring laughter to the...
Author
Series
Sister Holiday novels volume 1
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Language
English
Description
When Saint Sebastian’s School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn’t satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path...
12) One for all
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
13) Going bicoastal
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family of five living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, father Roger and mother Georgia make a series of choices that will have catastrophic consequences for their three children.
15) Camp Damascus
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community face in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed 'most effective' gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
1947: The real Santa is hired by Macy's to play the department store's Santa in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but has to prove in court that he is who he says he is.
1994: Remake of the 1947 movie in which Kris Kringle (Attenborough), while working at Macy's, encounters an unbelieving child (Wilson) and goes on trial to prove he is Santa.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous 'crash from outer space' has become a fixture in our culture, inspiring a surge...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1970s New York, her innocence is seductive. Four decades later, it's a crime. Living peacefully in Vermont, Ryan Flannigan is shocked when a text from her oldest friend alerts her to a devastating news item. A controversial photo of her as a pre-teen has been found in the possession of a wealthy investor recently revealed as a pedophile and a sex trafficker - with an inscription to him from Ryan's mother on the back. Memories crowd in, providing...
19) Blessed water
Author
Series
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
\2024.
Language
English
Description
"Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she’s committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux’s latest venture, Redemption Detective Agency—both in service of satisfying her eternal quest for answers. When Sister Holiday...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the town of Night Vale, there's a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone's home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from... until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with...