Summary: A seven year old genius is caught in a tug of war between his waitress mom who only wants a regular life for him, and the head of an institute for gifted children who wants to further his development.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITSummary: Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and some other striking differences, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia where they rule as king and queen. It is a land filled with monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants. This...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Bridge 2007Summary: Based on a true story of a daring young girl who will stop at nothing and fear no one. In 1943, thirteen-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these eleven...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FANSummary: The story of a family in a neighborhood, and kids going to school. Brak, the absent-minded space pirate, lives in a house in the neighborhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BRASummary: Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PONSummary: An autistic thirteen-year-old runs away from home and discovers a new world on the NYC subway. His mother Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, starts a panicked search of their neighborhood in Rockaway Beach with the help of a local shopkeeper. But as days pass with no sign of her son, and with Hurricane Sandy bearing down, the divisions the family has tried to ignore are brought to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A woodcutter's two children are led by a fairy through the past, present, and even the future to find the Bluebird of Happiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BLUSummary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: In the village of Kidsville, a town run entirely by children, the children and Sunny the Bunny make goodies for the Easter holiday, and win over the grumpy nearby town of grownups by inventing many happy Easter traditions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV EASSummary: Thicker than water: A faded photograph leads powerful attorney Natalie Jones to the bittersweet secrets of her father's past--where horses run free, families are bound by honor, and true love really exists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALSummary: A group of kids discover that a neighborhood house is actually a monster. To solve the mystery of the house they must go inside it, before it takes everyone that crosses its path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Monster 2006Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MSummary: In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE LOGSummary: The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy tells the story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARSummary: An all-new Midnight Society and a spooky new seaside location bring fresh scares when the group's leader suddenly vanishes. The remaining members must follow the clues, confront dark forces, and ultimately uncover the truth behind their town's terrifying curse. Will they break the curse of the shadows, before it₂s too late?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV ARECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ARESummary: An absorbing drama based on the true account of 18th-century doctor Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, played by Truffaut himself in a memorable performance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FRASummary: Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIO RATED PG 13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lion 2017Summary: "Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: Kenai, a young Native American boy who wants to be a man, sets out to take revenge after his older brother is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. When Kenai finds himself magically transformed into the creature he hates most, a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps while learning some life lessons. In his quest to return to human form, he is befriended by a talkative bear...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD BROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BROSummary: Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHESummary: During the spring of 1977, sci-fi-obsessed teenager Pat Johnson finds himself torn between making 8mm sequels to his favorite movies and pursuing the girl of his dreams, Linda. Desperate to help her son escape his likely future in Wadsworth, Illinois, (population 750), his mother Janet cold-calls the editor of 'American Cinematographer's magazine, and Pat soon finds himself on "the ultimate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIVSummary: David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008