Dem Bones
Factual information about the bones in the body is presented in the course of a rendition of the traditional African spiritual, "Dem Bones.
611
year: 2016
copies: 47
call number/section: 611
lexile: 930
The Christmas Miracle Of Jonathan Toomey
A grumpy, reclusive woodcarver's life is transformed when a widowed mother and her seven-year-old son ask him to create a Christmas creche to replace the lost one given to the boy by his late father.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 117
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: wood carving, christmas, friendship, wood-carvers, holidays, wood carvers, christmas stories, dvds [X]
The Polar Express
It's Christmas Eve, and you're about to roller coaster up and down the mountains, slip slide over ice fields, teeter across mile-high bridges and be served hot chocolate by singing waiters more astonishing than any you can imagine.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 235
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: santa claus, christmas, bells, north pole, dvds [X], closed caption video recordings, video recordings for the hearing impaired, christmas stories, films for the hearing impaired, electronic books, holidays, electronic books
Tuck Everlasting
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 529
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: fantasy, immortality, aging, secrets, fantasy fiction, audiobooks, films for the hearing impaired, feature films, children's films, fantasy films, secrecy, fantasy fiction, children's audiobooks, families, video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings, elderly, family life, film adaptations, dvds [X], large type books, large print books
The Sign Of The Beaver
DVD.;Title and credits from container.;Keith Carradine, Annette O'Toole, Gordon Tootoosis, Brendan Fletcher, Maury Chaykin.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 337
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, indians of north america, survival, friendship, large type books, compact discs, audiobooks, historical fiction, maine, native americans, dvds [X], newberry medal books, newbery honor book, survival, children's audiobooks, survival skills, large print books, juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / native american, historical fiction
The Wild Christmas Reindeer
After a few false starts, Teeka discovers the best way to get Santa's reindeer ready for Christmas Eve.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 165
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: reindeer, christmas, holidays, christmas stories, dvds [X], jewish holidays, fasts and feasts
Pink And Say
Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 294
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: friendship, historical fiction, united states, videotapes, dvds [X], confederate states of america
Sounder
His wife and children were starving, so the black sharecropper stole a ham to feed them.
FIC
year: 4519
copies: 272
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: dogs, poverty, african americans, family life, large type books, families, audiobooks, newbery medal, family, children's audiobooks, compact discs, closed caption video recordings, great depression, 1929-1939, television adaptations, sharecroppers, dvds [X], pets, animals, animal films, television adaptations, made for tv movies, dvd-video discs
A Christmas Carol
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 316
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: christmas, ghosts, ghost stories, england, misers, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), cartoons and comics, poverty fiction, ghosts fiction, misers fiction, christmas fiction, great britain, england fiction, christmas stories, poor families, sick children, london (england), scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), didactic fiction, animated films, closed caption video recordings, dvds [X], poor, family life, sick, christmas stories, ghost stories, audiobooks, scrooge, ebenezer, fiction, juvenile works, holidays, film novelizations, audiobooks, compact discs, jewish holidays, fasts and feasts, christmas fiction
Bullies Are A Pain In The Brain
Offers kids practical, easy-to-implement solutions for dealing with bully problems such as building confidence, staying calm, giving bullies lots of space, and telling an adult.
302.3
year: 2008
copies: 21
call number/section: 302.3
lexile: 700
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
In Victorian England, young aristocrat Dorian Gray meets Sir Harry Wotton and is introduced to London's society circuit and a decadent world of self-indulgience.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: conduct of life, supernatural, portraits, great britain, london (england), future life, soul, appearance (philosophy), personal appearance, didactic fiction, youthfulness, ross, tony, ill, dvds [X], horror, english literature, beauty, personal, england, wilde, oscar, didactic fiction, fables, gray, dorian (fictional character), paranormal fiction, aging, immortality, elderly, gothic fiction, gray, dorian
In The Time Of The Butterflies
Minerva Mirabal and her sisters, known as the Butterflies, become heroes and martyrs for their country as they work to overthrow tyrannical dictator General Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 59
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: mirabal, mar?a teresa, mirabal, minerva, mirabal, patria, women revolutionaries, historical fiction, dominican republic, mirabel, mar?a teresa, mirabal, mar?ia teresa, closed captioning, dvds [X], closed caption video recordings
Rebecca
A film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel in which the second Mrs.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: man-woman relationships, country homes, man-woman relationship, love stories, romantic suspense novels, cornwall (england : county), remarried people, country houses, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds [X], compact discs, audiobooks, de winter, maximilian (fictitious character), men-women relationship, wives, remarriage, great britain
A Separate Peace
Based on John Knowles' novel, this involving a young man's first glimpse of adult emotions and motivations is compelling in both plot and perfomrance.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 345
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1110
subjects: preparatory school students, boys, friendship, death, school stories, new hampshire, private schools, closed captioning, dvds [X], closed caption video recordings, bildungsromans, audiobooks, schools, historical fiction, video recordings for the hearing impaired, ethnics - fiction, preparatory schools - fiction, friendship - fiction, audiobooks, historical fiction, bildungsromane
The Color Purple
Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 123
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: african american women, sisters, adult child sexual abuse victims, abused wives, southern states, domestic fiction, closed captioning, dvds [X], closed caption video recordings, abused women, electronic books, electronic books, domestic fiction