Summary: The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLASummary: Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVAKay, Verla.
Summary: Two brothers spend a year attending a one-room schoolhouse on the frontier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAYLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building imminently to be demolished.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1989
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LEGArmstrong, Alan W.
Summary: Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: FIC ARMCohen, Caron Lee.
Summary: A school of fish and a group of children frolic in the bay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE COHLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: After being rescued by a flying cat, Alexander the cat decides to make good on a promise to do wonderful things.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1994
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LEGSpinelli, Eileen.
Summary: As his mouse family endures a long, cold winter, Moses's contributions of a dance, a juggling act, and a little song prove more useful than he had supposed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPIBeebe, Katy.
Summary: After painstakingly handcrafting a replacement copy of a library book, a medieval monk tries to protect it from a hungry bear with a taste for literature. Includes historical note on illuminated manuscripts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEEHelldorfer, Mary-Claire
Summary: Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift that Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Summary: Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1988
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LEGLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1988
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LEGLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building about to be demolished.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1989
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LEGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR Blue LeGuinSilverman, Erica.
Summary: A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers the value of cooperation when she gets help from a series of monsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SILSummary: The story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach in a small South Carolina town and the illiterate, mentally-challenged man nicknamed Radio whom he mentors. Although their friendship raises some eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Radio 2003Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RaHurst, Carol Otis.
Summary: A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the "terrible blizzard of 1888," during which each was stuck for three days doing what he disliked the most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HURO'Connor, Jane.
Summary: Two families--a large one that lives in a house and the other a tiny one that lives in a snow globe, look forward to a big snowstorm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OCOCuyler, Margery.
Summary: A monster sneaks into a boy's room and cleans up while the boy is asleep.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2008
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Summary: Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow a family as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAYKoons, Jon.
Summary: The villagers of Chelm, in the rabbi's absence, send a messenger to a nearby village in order to be reminded how to prepare for the coming Hanukkah.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KOOLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the hands of a man who keeps her prisoner and exploits her for money.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LE GLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: After being rescued by a flying cat, Alexander the cat decides to make good on a promise to do wonderful things.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1994