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1) Kowloon Tong
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1997
Description
In this 'moody thriller,' a family business is targeted for takeover as control of Hong Kong shifts from the British to the Chinese (The New York Times). Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, have lived here for years, mostly keeping apart from their foreign surroundings, except for some indulgence in the local food, or in Bunt's case, the local girls....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Loqueleo, Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
El señor Wonka escondió cinco billetes de oro en sus chocolates. Quienes los encuentren serán los afortunados que visiten su magnífica fábrica de chocolate. Charlie tiene la suerte de encontrar uno de ellos y, a partir de ese momento, su vida cambiará para siempre.
Series
Formats
Description
In the world behind our closet doors, James P. "Sulley" Sullivan and Mike Wazowski work hard. To be exact, monsters like Mike and Sulley pick up their paychecks at Monsters Inc., the utility company that generates energy for the monster world from our children's screams. These days, it's getting harder and harder to shock kids properly--they've been spoiled by television--so much so that now there's an energy shortage! One day Sulley, the number one...
6) The interior
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1999
Description
An American lawyer and a Chinese policewoman jointly investigate working conditions in an American-owned toy factory in China where a woman has committed suicide. By the author of Flower Net.
7) Lyddie
Author
Series
Espasa juvenil volume 18
Publisher
Espasa
Pub. Date
2007, c1996
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them. Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment propelled smart and industrious young men to create companies devoted to design, architecture, automobiles, and more. Three men share a dream of building...
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 27
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Geronimo Stilton regrets that he is too busy to celebrate Christmas in New Mouse City and wishes he could fly to Santa's toy factory.
10) Gung ho
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Michael Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen his home town's defunct auto factory, but when the Japanese hire him to enforce their policies among his American co-workers, he goes from hero to zero in seconds flat.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Uncle Flores is the best tailor in the town of Pinbauê in Brazil. He used to make colourful costumes for the carnival, but nowadays he only makes grey uniforms for the factory workers. The houses are covered with dust from the factory, the river water is murky, and everything is drab. Edinho, his nephew, comes by every day after school to help cut and iron the cloth and listen to his uncle's stories. But when the factory tells Uncle Flores they don't...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and its effects.
Gujiao, China, 2009. Luli has aged out of the orphanage, and her friend Yun helps her get work at a factory. Yun has new clothes, a cell phone, and a boyfriend. But word is Yung is a bride...
Author
Series
Judy Moody and friends volume 10
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Left-handers are creative. Left-handers are geniuses. Half of all cats are lefties! (Or so says Stink.) But Judy is a righty... and Judy is feeling left out. Tomorrow is Left Handers Day, and Stink and Dad, the southpaws in the Moody family, are celebrating at the pretzel factory. Judy is allowed to come along on one condition: she has to be left-handed the whole entire day. It's on!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.
17) New in town
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Beetlejuice (1988, 92 min.): A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, 115 min.): Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bregdan Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Carrie and her housemates battle cholera in Philadelphia. Her world is turned upside down when she discovers the truth of her heritage. Will it completely change her path? Robert watches his dreams fade before his eyes when he refuses to align himself with southern beliefs after the war. Rose has to face down a new threat, and Moses is forced to step into the role he has avoided. Janie has agreed to marry Matthew, but can she actually move beyond...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Provides a detailed account of the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers in 1911, and examines the impact of this event on the nation's working conditions and labor laws.
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