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1) The Red Pony
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt and the sun-drenched California earth." Junius Maltby: After ten years as a San Francisco accountant, Junius moves to sunny Pastures of Heaven, marries, has a son and becomes poverty stricken through laziness. When he realizes he is hurting his son, he has to make a decision.
2) How to Deal
Pub. Date
19uu
Language
English
Description
A young hip high school student is convinced that true love doesn't exist based on relationships around her until she meets a boy who tries to show her what love is all about.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
℗2013
Language
English
Description
Charlie Bucket has a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. No ladies in hairnets here! This factory is the ultimate candy land with singing Oompa-Loompas and a chocolate river. But along the way, the other ticket-holders meet bizarre fates. Will Charlie make it to the secret prize waiting at the tour's end?
4) Strike zone
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old pitcher Nick Garcia dreams of winning the Little League MVP and throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium. But he also dreams of a world where his sister can be cured of lupus and his undocumented parents don't have to live in fear of the government. Then his worst fears come to pass and they affect his fastball. Fortunately, an unlikely hero steps in just in time.
Author
Series
Dora the explorer volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dora's mother is having twins, and Dora can't wait to be their big sister.
7) Misty
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The story of an orphaned brother and sister who work to earn the money to buy a pony in the annual auction of the wild ponies of Assateague Island.
Language
English
Description
After Albert backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend leaves him for another man. When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw, arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Set in the near future where climate change has wreaked havoc in parts of the American Midwest, a government agency exiles members of society deemed unproductive to a colony known as New Eden. An ambitious and impartial caseworker, Noah Kross investigates a case appealed by a single mother and her son. Determined to expose government secrets, Kross sets off to save the lives of the mother and child.
11) Timeline
Language
English
Description
A group of present-day archeology students are stunned to discover a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357 ... from their own professor. He's been blasted back in time to the 14th century. To rescue him, they must travel back and survive one of the most violent battles in world history--and make it back to the 21st century alive.
12) Saving Winston
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A faith-based family drama about a troubled teen who is forced to leave a self-destructive lifestyle and finds redemption through her faith in God and the rehabilitation of a rescued horse. With stunning visuals, breakthrough performances, and a beautiful soundtrack, Saving Winston is a heartfelt story about a lost soul seeking God's grace.
13) Realive
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Marc experiences a terrible shock when, at just 32, he is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year to live, at best. Unable to accept his death, he decides to freeze his body before the disease can impair it. His great love, Naomi, will accompany him in the process, although she'd rather care for him until his natural end. Sixty years later, an institution called Prodigy Health Corporation manages to revive him.
Publisher
Treasures, Inc
Pub. Date
c.2005
Language
English
Description
AFRICA SCREAMS: Two bookstore clerks become involved in a safari to Africa to find diamonds and make their way through humorous mishaps involving crooked safari organizers, animals, wild and not so wild natives JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: While babysitting a spoiled child Costello falls to sleep while reading a story to the child and wakes up in a world of make believe.
15) Cars
Publisher
Disney/Pixar :Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2006]
Language
English
Description
Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
16) The Matrix
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Computer hacker realizes the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us.
In an anti-utopian future, the real world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct and are now fighting for the future of the human race.
18) Caddie Woodlawn
Publisher
All Things Family
Pub. Date
[2003], c1989
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
RKO Radio Pictures
Pub. Date
1954
Language
English
Description
A western melodrama, aided by a university-edrated Indian who is working for a peaceful coexistence with the white settlers. The daughter of a slain cattleman exposes a wealthy cattle owner as the inciter of renegade indians who murdered her father and stole his herd.