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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Contained along with the complete text of Shakespeare's classic tragedy about the "two star-crossed lovers" from Verona is full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books. Reissue. (Plays / Drama)
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
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From creator, Taylor Sheridan comes a prequel to Yellowstone. It follows the original Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It's a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land Montana.
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Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love, and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbor.
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Anastasia meets a handsome millionaire and her life will never be the same.
"With a loose-limbed naturalness, she conveys naivete, intellectual curiosity and romantic yearning, and shows the unassuming Ana's newfound thrill at being seen, however complicated the man holding her in his admiring gaze..."--The Hollywood Reporter.
"The film strips Fifty Shades of Grey to its essentials: a confident man, an awkward girl, and a red room rimmed with leather...
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Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
"...engaging...
8) Endless love
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A privileged girl and a charismatic boy share an instant desire that sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
"Endless Love tells the story of star-crossed lovers, beautifully."--Toronto Star
"...a swoony love story..."--Entertainment Weekly
"...creates some believable sparks..."--Arizona Republic
9) Pig
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A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
10) 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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The hopes of a golf hero are shattered on the battlefield. Disillusioned and angry, the young man turns his back on the world - and the game he loves - until a visit from a mysterious stranger turns his life around.
"Magical!"--ABC Radio Network
"Superb...a masterpiece."--WNBC
"Thumbs up!"--Ebert & Roeper And the Movies
12) The Black Swan
Series
Studio classic volume 38
Description
In this psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, an insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake. But she slowly loses her grip on reality with the ever-increasing pressures of perfection and direct competition from a seductive newcomer.
"...a performance by Natalie Portman that is nothing short of heroic."--Roger Ebert
"Artful, epic, operatic even, this thriller set in the world of ballet challenges the viewer with...
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Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north, where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
14) War horse
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Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter.
"War...
15) Settlers
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Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier, llsa and Reza inhabit a desolate farmstead with their child Remmy. They work the land and shield their daughter from the dangers of the harsh surroundings. When hostile intruders threaten to expel them from the compound the family is forced to fight to survive in this science-fiction thrill ride.
16) Crossover
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Two friends, Tech and Cruise, use streetball for different reasons: one to hustle for money and the other to get a scholarship for medical school. When circumstances bring them together on the court, will their friendship survive?
"An inner-city drama promoting themes of friendship, loyalty and the value of a good education..."--New York Daily News
"...a wonderful message about making smart life choices..."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"...admired...
17) Lansky
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When aging gangster Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the feds, who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars, Lansky spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
18) A Time to Kill
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A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tension to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
19) Spotlight
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It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.
"No...
20) Footloose
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Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont, where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with...
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