Summary: A timely documentary that raises urgent questions about how we travel and the unintended cultural and environmental consequences of tourism around the globe. Gringo Trails follows well-worn travelers' routes through Bolivia, Thailand, Mali, and Bhutan and reveals the complex relationships between colliding cultures, such as the host countries' need for financial security and the tourists who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRISummary: In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about helpful strategies for transitioning to a new school. What preparations can be taken before the first day at your new school to alleviate anxiety? What steps should you take to adjust to your new school? What are the differences in transitioning between elementary school to middle school and then to high school? If things are not going...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MYSummary: Siblings Tad and Lily are overcome with first-day-of-school jitters. What will they have to learn? How will they know what time it is? To allay their fears, Edison shows them their classroom and their older brother Leap reassures them about school. It's normal to be nervous about a new situation, but Tad and Lily are now feeling confident and excited. Their school-related fears are transformed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: LeapFrog Enterprises 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach Me DVD Leap Let's 2009Summary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012