Sissy Spacek
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
To Kill a Mockingbird has become one of the best-loved classics of all time since its publication in 1960. It has sold more than 30 million copies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, was a New York Times bestseller for more than 40 weeks, was made into an enormously popular movie starring Gregory Peck, and has been translated into 20 languages. Now, 40 years after it was first published, HarperCollins is issuing a new hardcover edition at a reasonable...
Series
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Retired Texas Ranger Captain Woodrow Call has become a bounty hunter, hired for one last hunt for a psychopathic 17-year-old killer. Joining him on the hunt is his one-time corporal, Pea Eye Parker. Pea Eye's wife Lorena sets out after her husband to convince him to come home after she learns that the murderous Indian Mox Mox is on the rampage and looking for someone new to burn alive"--ViaVision.com.au.
7) Deadfall
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Siblings Addison and Liza are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. They split up and make a run for the Canadian border in blizzard conditions, vowing to reunite in Canada. Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, and retired sheriff. It's there the siblings are reunited in a tense and thrilling showdown.
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
9) Carrie
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Carrie White is a girl who has been brought up by her psychotically religious mother Margaret. After she unexpectedly has her first period at school, she is teased by the girls more ruthlessly than before. The gym teacher punishes the girls that were involved. Sue Snell who feels sorry for what happened, asks her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom instead of her. Chris Hargenson has been banned from the prom and she isn't so forgiving. Chris hatches...
12) Get low
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Formats
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin' he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
The prequel to Lonesome Dove is set in the Texas Republic in the early 1840s, a time when Anglo, Hispanic, and Commanche cultures were in fierce conflict. Shows Gus and Call on a deadly trail to Santa Fe facing the rigors of nature and the elements, as well as outlaws, bandits, and the notorious Commanche warrior Buffalo Hump.
14) Four Christmases
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennessee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises were heard. As the spirit grew, it singled out the father, John, and his daughter, Betsy. The family tried to search for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way to defeat it. The spirit developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refused to say why it was there. Finally it pronounced a death sentence on John and within a year, he was...
16) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
17) Carrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1976
Description
"Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her classmates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk, to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the...
18) Gray matters
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Thirty-something New Yorker, Gray shares just about everything with her wisecracking brother, Sam: old movies, swing dancing and--much to her surprise--an attraction to his gorgeous new girlfriend, Charlie. Never having realized she might be gay, Gray's confusion turns to desperation as she follows the "expert" advice of clueless friends, shrinks and strangers.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, it is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland.