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2) Lucas
Language
English
Description
A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends, Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love, fall for each other.
3) Bushwhacked
Language
English
Description
A bumbling deliveryman is accused of murder when a get-rich scheme backfires. He flees for the woods where he is mistaken for a world famous scout leader. He ends up supervising six Ranger Scouts on their first overnight expedition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 5-star hotel turns into a 3-ring circus when an orangutan named Dunston checks in on the eve of the social event of the season. Dodging his jewel-thieving owner and the frantic hotel manager, Dunston is befriended by the manager's 10-year-old son, Kyle, who's determined to help his new friend escape--Container.
Language
English
Description
When the cast is removed from his newly healed broken arm, clumsy 12-year-old Henry is shocked to find his arm has become a 100 mph fastball. His throw from the bleachers directly to home plate alerts the last place Chicago Cubs and before you know it, he is signed as their new ace pitcher. With a few pointers from an aging star pitcher, young Henry actually manages to pull off the impossible.
Language
English
Description
A 5-star hotel turns into a 3-ring circus when an orangutan named Dunston checks in on the eve of the social event of the season. Dodging his jewel-thieving owner and the frantic hotel manager, Dunston is befriended by the manager's 10-year-old son, Kyle, who's determined to help his new friend escape--Container.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book is the first in-depth history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today. Noel Brown shows how, far from being an innocuous amusement for children, the family film has always been intended for audiences of all ages and backgrounds....
12) Breaking away
Language
English
Description
The Academy Award winning comedy about an idealistic young man and his friends and their pursuit to find jobs and a purpose to life in their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana.
13) My dog Skip
Language
English
Description
"Who says best friends have to be human? Not Willie Morris, who receives a talented terrier named Skip for his birthday. With Skip's remarkable and unconventional help, Willie and Skip turn bullies into friends, tangle with hapless moonshiners and even win the affection of the prettiest girl in school"--Container.
14) Kolya
Language
Czech
Description
The life of a cellist, playboy, and confirmed bachelor in late Soviet-era Prague is upended after he agrees to marry a Russian woman for money so that she isn't deported and ends up taking care of her abandoned five-year-old son Kolya.
16) Thumbelina
Language
English
Description
The story of a girl no bigger than a thumb who meets the king of the flower angels after escaping from an ugly toad who wanted to marry her.
18) Broken bridges
Language
English
Description
The death of a loved one brings fading country music star Bo Price back to his hometown where he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart and meets his 16-year-old-daughter for the first time.
19) Breaking away
Language
English
Description
The Academy Award winning comedy about an idealistic young man and his friends and their pursuit to find jobs and a purpose to life in their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana.