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1) Goosebumps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah, living right next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her in Germany during World War II. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
3) The bookshop
Language
English
Description
In England in 1959, free spirited widow Florence Green follows her lifelong dream by opening a bookshop in a conservative coastal town.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A tale of adventure and fantasy, which sends a young boy into the pages of the world's greatest stories. Seeking refuge from a storm, timid Richard Tyler enters an empty library only to be swept away into the magical animated world of The Pagemaster, where legendary characters from literary classics come alive. Guided by a trio of talking books--Adventure, Fantasy and Horror--Richard must conquer his greatest fears before he can find his way home....
5) Goosebumps 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people's trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a locked book that frees a supernatural nightmare. Slappy! Now, with the help of Sonny's sister, Sarah, they're in a race against time to get the sinister dummy and all the creatures he's brought to life back into the pages before he unleashes total pandemonium!
7) Wolf!
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
Author
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Young Freedy Bunny is having trouble learning in school, but he'd rather play video games and watch TV anyway. With encouragement and support from his teacher and the Book Fairy, his parents start reading to him twenty minutes a day, and in no time he becomes a happy book-loving super student.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Arthur writes a story: Struggling with a school writing assignment, Arthur decides that all he needs is a little imagination to make his life sound more interesting than it really is. But he crosses the line when the story of how he got his puppy starts to involve invisible elephants and trips to outer space. Locked in the library!: If only Arthur hadn't called Francine a marshmallow! Now they're locked inside the Elmwood City Library together, and...
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
c[2006?]
Language
English
Description
In "Aunt Chip and the great Triple Creek dam affair," Aunt Chip saves the town ot Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television. In "Rechenka eggs," an injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind. In...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Goosebumps: Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets the next-door neighbor Hannah, daughter of the best-selling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. Stine is very mysterious and a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and he protects his readers by keeping them locked in his manuscripts. When the monsters are accidentally unleashed and...
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
A young Amish girl tells her "silent friend," her diary, about all the wonderous experiences she has on her first trip to a city,...
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
English
Description
In "Meet the Barkers- Morgan and Moffat go to school," Bossy Moffie and her quiet twin brother Morgie both enjoy starting school, especially getting gold stars and making new friends; in "100th day worries," Jessica worries about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th day of school; in "Trouble in the Barkers' class," when a new girl in the Barkers' class, Carole Anne, acts like a bully, the students try talking to her and ignoring...
19) Animal cafe
Series
Reading rainbow volume no. 26
Publisher
Distributed GPN
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Explores New York City at night to look at what really happens during the late night hours into the wee hours of the morning. Features the book Animal cafe by John Stadler and reviews other books with related themes.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
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