Hero
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Joe Flacco had built an impressive career during his four years in the NFL. With one of the strongest throwing arms of any quarterback, Joe had led his team, the Baltimore Ravens, to win two playoff games in his first year- something no other rookie quarterback had ever done.
26) Marshall
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"This film contains material that will inspire your family. Mercy Rule is a baseball adventure for the whole family. Parents and kids will be inspired by the story of the Millers as they learn life's lessons of mercy, patience, sacrifice, legacy, and trusting God. Gather the whole family together and get ready to learn what it means to be a 'no quit family'"--Insert.
29) Fearless
Pub. Date
[2006]
Formats
Description
Inspired by the story of a real-life hero, Huo Yuanjia. When an ill-advised fight destroys the reputation of a renowned martial arts champion and his family, his difficult path to redemption will bring him face-to-face with the most ferocious fighters in the world.
30) Spring breakers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Four frustrated college girlfriends plot to fund their best spring break ever by burglarizing a fast-food shack. But that's only the beginning: during a night of partying, the girls get arrested. Hung over and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge and get bailed out unexpectedly by Alien, an infamous local dealer who takes them on the wildest spring-break trip in history.
Appears on list
Description
Kelly's Heroes:They were goldbricks until they found out about the gold bricks – a fortune in Nazi-confiscated bullion! Clint Eastwood reups with the director of his Where Eagles Dare for the action-filled and tongue-in-cheek tale of GIs who decide to get something extra out of the war. Eastwood’s title character masterminds a scheme to slip behind enemy lines and steal the loot. Co-stars include a trio on the verge of big-time TV success: Carroll...
35) Fuel
Pub. Date
c2010
Formats
Description
A powerful portrait of America's overwhelming addiction to, and reliance on, oil. Having been born and raised in one of the USA's biggest oil-producing regions, Josh Tickell saw firsthand how the industry controls, deceives, and damages the country, its people, and the environment, and after one too many people he know became sick, he knew he just couldn't idly stand by any longer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"Sweet dreams! Get ready for bedtime with all your favorite Disney and Disney-Pixar characters. Help Rapunzel and Flynn find a way to get Max to sleep, explore the Pride Lands at night with Simba and Nala, have an after-dark underwater adventure with Marlin and Nemo, and more! This enchanting collection, feauturing new stories, makes bedtime fun!"--Back cover. "The third edition of this top-selling storybook has been updated with new stories and illustrations....
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Robert Kaiser's photographs and Levi Romero's poems find grace in tragedy, elegance in seediness, pride in despair, and moments of joy along the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Spencer Herrera provides narrative context for the photographs and poetry, and together these pieces will form a tightly unified story of the borderlands"--
Pub. Date
2022
Description
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Two episodes from the television documentary series The History of Rock and Roll.
Guitar heroes examines the role of the electric guitar in the history of rock and focuses on people like Chuck Berry, Pete Townshend, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and others.
The '70s: have a nice decade: The 1970s were the best of times and also the worst. Rock 'n' roll had never been a bigger business: recording sessions had never been more elaborate,...