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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Butter battle book: The Zooks and the Yooks are at war over butter and bread--on which side should one spread? Each side is convinced their way of buttering is the best way around and they're willing to fight to prove it. Daisy-head Mayzie: Young Mayzie McGrew becomes a worldwide sensation when a daisy grows out of the top of her head, and everyone attempts to get rid of it. Horton hatches the egg: Mayzie, a very lazy bird, talks Horton into sitting...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut and in the process may find his true love; Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth; Diego, the saber-toothed tiger, wonders if he's growing too 'soft' hanging with his pals; and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world where they...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
cp2004.
Description
These wonderfully funny short stories feature a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty, or ignominy, with various degrees of success. This recording includes the following stories: 'All's Well with Bingo,' 'Bingo and the Peke Crisis,' 'The Editor Regrets,' 'Sonny Boy,' 'Anselm Gets His Chance,' 'Romance at Droitgate Spa,' 'A Bit of Luck for Mabel,' 'Buttercup Day,' and 'Ukridge and the Old Stepper.'
Author
Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as whether a diary of George Washington's mother is authentic, or if a UFO picture supposedly taken by the army is real.
45) The boxtrolls
Description
A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family....
Description
Sinbad, a daring and notorious rogue, has spent his life sailing the seven seas asking for trouble. Now he has been framed for stealing a priceless and powerful treasure - the Book of Peace. Sinbad has one chance to find, then return the precious book, and battle the Goddess of Chaos or his best friend Proteus will die.
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Description
In kidsville, youngsters make their own laws, run their own shops and maybe even stay up as late as they want. Each spring, everyone - including Sunny the Bunny - pitches in to make Easter holiday goodies. Then it;s the Bunny's job to take the painted eggs and yummy jellybeans to a nearby town called Town. But he better watch out. Because grouchy old Town doesn't allow kids or a hippity-hoppity Easter bunny!
51) The Code
Pub. Date
2008.
Formats
Description
Needing to pay off the Russian mob, a veteran thief takes on a younger partner for one last heist.
53) Nefarious
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
54) Puss in Boots
Pub. Date
2012, [2016]
Description
Long before meeting Shrek, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) -- just named a hero for saving a woman from a charging bull -- is run out of town on suspicion of bank robbery, even though the real villain is Puss' friend, Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis). Though there is still animosity between them, Puss and Humpty reunite to steal a goose that lays golden eggs. Joining them for the adventure of nine lifetimes is notorious cat burglar, Kitty Softpaws...
55) Moana
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A mythic adventure set around 2,000 years ago across a series of islands in the South Pacific. The film follows the journey of a spirited teenager named Moana as she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui, and together they traverse the open ocean, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds.
56) Brooklyn Castle
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
I.S.318 is an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level, that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he'd only rank fifth best.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Ten9Eight chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low-income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in the 2008 "National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge" annual business plan competition sponsored by National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).
Special features: trailer; interview with the director; stories of Rahfeal, Huong, Eric, Sekeithia; performances by Eric, Sekeithia,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In an attempt to save her broken game, Ralph and Vanellope race against the clock -- and some shady characters in a gritty, urban racing game -- in the vast world of the Internet! When faced with the lure of new cars and exciting racing routes, Vanellope considers leaving the arcade for good, and Ralph recognizes that he may lose the only friend he's ever had.
Some action and rude humor.
59) Searching
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After David Kim's sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Once upon a meow in the forest of Knotty-Pine, Sheriff Grinder tries to steal everybody's bubble gum. -- Grinder Piper has misplaced his pickled peppers, and Catnip McMuffet hasn't seen her tuffet all morning! -- Mamma Quackling has just hatched four new eggs. -- Lonely toy-maker Grandpappetto Kitty never has anyone to play with. -- Little Red Bunny Hood gallops into a whole heap of trouble when she travels to the Wild West to visit Grandma.