(0)Sissy Spacek
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race,...
3) Carrie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal... until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
To Kill a Mockingbird--Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much. Go Set a Watchman--Taking place...
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"F. Scott Fitzgerald spent a lifetime battling demons - alcohol and a schizophrenic wife - yet, he wrote some of the greatest novels in American literature. Despite a tumultouous relationship with his mistress, an ailing wife, declining health, and daily drinking binges, Fitzgerald secretly wrote a scathing novel about the film industry which some call his best work. It was his final triumph."--Insert.
7) Missing
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When an American writer and filmmaker goes missing during a military coup in Chile, his father and wife attempt to locate him.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alvin hears that his estranged brother Lyle has had a stroke, Alvin is determined to see him. With his brother living several hundred miles away and without a drivers license, Alvin makes the trip with a riding mower.
"...this one will mow you over...highly recommended"--Video Librarian
"...profoundly spiritual film that can hold an audience in absolute thrall."--New York Times
Series
Publisher
Dollar Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Katherine : [Made for television in 1975] is based on the life of Diana Oughton, daughter of a wealthy Illinois real estate owner and politician. A young heiress rejects her birthright, rebels against social injustice, and must choose the path of violence as the only means to her desired ends
The Ballad of Andy Crocker: This made for TV movie stars Lee Majors as Andy Crocker, a disillusioned Vietnam veteran. Originally telecast Novemeber 18, 1969,...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Good intentions. Erratic bosses. Mounting paranoia. Unforeseen consequences spiralling out of control. Heidi (Julia Roberts) works at Homecoming, a facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, when the Department of Defense questions why she left Homecoming. Heidi soon realises there's a whole other story behind the one she's been telling herself.
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In the acclaimed performance that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, Sissy Spacek stars as legendary Loretta Lynn, the dirt poor Appalachian Mountains girl who rose from humble beginnings to become the "Queen of Country Music." At eighteen, the mother of four children and busy housewife still finds time to write and sing songs at small fairs and local honky-tonks. Recognizing her raw talent and huge potential, her ambitious husband Mooney...
15) Four Christmases
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennessee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises were heard. As the spirit grew, it singled out the father, John, and his daughter, Betsy. The family tried to search for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way to defeat it. The spirit developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refused to say why it was there. Finally it pronounced a death sentence on John and within a year, he was...
18) Beyond the call
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corporation
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Helping a condemned ex-beau rekindles old feelings in a housewife and jeopardizes her marriage.
19) Lake City
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Billy gets into trouble with a local drug dealer, he hits the road and heads to the last place he wants to go: his childhood home. Years after a family tragedy drove them apart, Billy is reunited with his mother, Maggie and forced to confront both their past and his dangerous situation.
