Summary: A former baseball minor-leaguer coaches a team of tough kids. His star pitcher is a girl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAD

Summary: Harriet is probably the most accomplished 11-year-old spy. She dreams of being a writer and her nanny told her to start by writing down everything she sees. It's all in good fun, that is until her friends find her private writings. Now they don't like Harriet much. Can Harriet win back her friends or is she doomed to be considered an outsider, a rejected writer and forgotten spy?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1996

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD H

Summary: In order to escape Communist Hungary, a family must leave behind their infant daughter. She is then temporarily raised by a peasant Hungarian couple. When the daughter is finally brought to America to be with her family, her relationship with her real family becomes strained. The girl is torn between two mothers and two homelands. Based on a true story. The girl returns to Hungary and take an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME

Summary: Morris Buttermaker an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD B

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau. So Sam decides to write a note to his folks, pack up some of his belongings and leave home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature -- miles from civilization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MY

Summary: When her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans to become a ballerina and join her estranged father on Chicago's gritty South side. She feels out of place until she is befriended by a black classmate and her handsome brother, Derek. Sara and Derek's shared love for dance leads to romance-- and opposition from their families and friends.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAV

Summary: Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing, and from their candid and hilarious perspectives, reveal pieces of themselves along the way. This school program started in 1994 and today has over 6,000 kids from 60 schools involved.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAD
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAD

Summary: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Series 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ASE

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SER

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Le

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SER RATED PG

Summary: Young Frances and Elsie believe in fairies. The photographs the girls take of the winged beings put them at the center of a real-life controvery that sweeps through a recovering World War I England during 1917. Everyone is caught up in the excitement, including two of the era's most renowned men: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and master illusionist Harry Houdini. Are the photographs real or just a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fa