Cherry Jones
3) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
Author
Description
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
8) So B. It
Author
Series
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
9) Boy erased
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding...
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and 180s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world2s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people...
11) Signs
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.
12) 24: Season seven
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Description
While Jack Bauer is before a Senate subcommittee to answer for his crimes, the FBI needs his help to foil a terrorist plot.
13) The beaver
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since early childhood, was a passionate advocate for change, using her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty. Becoming Helen Keller examines the complex legacy of this author, advocate, lecturer, and human rights pioneer.
15) I saw the light
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
16) 24: Season eight
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Hang on for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as Jack Bauer unveils darker secrets, faces deadlier conspiracies, and is thrust into more extreme action than ever before! As Day Eight unfolds, Bauer races against the clock to prevent the assassination of a Middle Eastern leader on a vital peace-making mission. Meanwhile, a deadly terrorist threat against New York City intensifies and builds toward an explosive climax.
17) Defending Jacob
Publisher
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, this series unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family in particular, forcing an assistant district attorney to choose between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son.
18) 11.22.63
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and based upon the bestselling...
19) 24: redemption
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"After sacrificing everything for his country, Jack Bauer is wanted by the U.S. government and now stands to lose the only thing he has left: his freedom. Working as a missionary in Africa, Bauer is called upon to stop a ruthless warlord from drafting innocent children into his murderous militia. First, Bauer must confront his own torturous past and face an impossible decision that will change his life forever"--Publisher.
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