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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Hemingway's triumphant yet tragic story of an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic.
2) The help
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
4) Shiloh
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Shiloh quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
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Chronicles the journey of Professor Melvin Tolson, a debate team coach who turns a group of underdog students from a small African-American college into a historically elite debate team. Inspired by a true story.
"Two thumbs up!"--Roeper & Michael Phillips
"...affirming and inspiring and re-creates the stories of a remarkable team and its coach."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"For a film about the power of speech, it's the quiet moments of rapture...
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She found Anne Frank's diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy --...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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"A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, his is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and...
9) The help
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Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
"***1/2 A...
10) Hidden Figures
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As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
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During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency. Special features: commentary, and featurettes.
"Smart and solidly entertaining, thanks to one of the year's top ensemble casts working at the top of its game."--New York Post
"Clooney has a keen eye for a good story....
12) The descendants
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Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
"...we get vested in the lives of these characters. That's rare in a lot of movies."--Roger Ebert
"Another...
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Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband. Bonus features included.
"...a splendid period swooner..."--Variety
"...a completely satisfying realm of romantic melodrama."--Michael Phillips
"...a movie made of real people and plausible sets."--Roger...
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When Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac accepts a U.N. peacekeeper position in postwar Bosnia, she discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost. With masterful acting and a heart-racing plot, an acclaimed film inspired by actual events.
"A first-rate one-woman-against-the-system drama."--Orlando Sentinel
"Rarely has...
15) The dark knight
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As Batman sets out to destroy crime in Gotham for good, he soon finds himself prey to a criminal mastermind known as the Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante.
"...one of the best movies of the year."--Richard Roeper
"Visionary. Prepare to be wowed."--Rolling Stone
"...a masterpiece."--New York Observer
"...the best superhero movie to date."--USA Today
"***1/2...Ledger's...
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The Bug Band is supposed to sing on Ant's radio show, but they have no words to their song! With Frog's help, they learn to sing a song that rhymes just fine and just in time. Pl-Pl-Plane: When Frog has to crash-land his plane in the jungle, he goes on a wild adventure. Get Your Coat: Duck builds all sorts of words that end in oat to coax his good friend Frog to come out and play in the rain with him. Waterlogged: When Frog's log sinks, he moves in...
18) Funny girl
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The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
"Warmly recommended."--Video Librarian
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During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by Lt. Aldo Raine, known as 'The Basterds,' are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premiere, including Adolf Hitler.
"...exhilirating...recommended."--Video...
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In the years before World War II, a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work at a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri.
"There's a lot of emotion and heart."--Richard Roeper
"...deeply felt performances..."--Rolling Stone
"Arthur Golden's international best-seller has been moved to the bigscreen with beauty and tact."--Variety
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