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 [X], film adaptations, dvds [X], large type books, large print books
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 [X], 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 [X], sick, christmas stories, ghost stories, audiobooks, scrooge, ebenezer, fiction, juvenile works, holidays, film novelizations, audiobooks, compact discs, jewish holidays, fasts and feasts, christmas fiction
Ethan Frome
National Theatre, direction Rapley Theatre Company, S.E. Cochran, manager, Max Gordon presents Pauline Lord in "Ethan Frome," a dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, "Ethan Frome" by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, with Earle Larimore (suggested by a previous dramatization by Lowell Barrington), staged by Karl Nielsen.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 189
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: farm life, rural poor, married people, social life and customs-fiction, new england-fiction, poor, domestic fiction, new england, tragedy, love stories, massachusetts, triangles (interpersonal relations), american literature, accident victims, large type books, closed captioning, dvds [X], closed caption video recordings, interpersonal relations, edith wharton, family life [X], new england, domestic, victims of crimes, spanish language, domestic fiction, love stories
Families Of Canada
Follows a day in the lives of two children and their families in Canada, providing insights into the lifestyles, family interactions, foods, celebrations, schools, and other aspects of Canadian culture.
306.85
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: 306.85
lexile:
subjects: closed captioning, dvds [X], closed caption video recordings, children, family life [X], canada
Families Of Puerto Rico
Presents an introduction to Puerto Rico, as it follows a day in the lives of two young children, nine-year-old Jose and eight-year-old Laura and their families.
972.95
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: 972.95
lexile:
The World According To Garp
The son of a famous radical feminist spends his life struggling with his diverse personal relationships and with his ambition to be a writer.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: eccentrics and eccentricities, mothers and sons, feminists, women, films for the hearing impaired, mother-son relationship, families, family life [X], dvds [X]
Once Were Warriors
Beth, a Maori mother in New Zealand, decides to call upon the warrior spirit of her people in an attempt to save herself and her family from the debilitating effects of the poverty in which they live.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: maori (new zealand people), video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings, families, family life [X], dvds [X], new zealand
Interiors
Three adult sisters cope with their family's imminent dissolution when their father announces his separation from their mentally unbalanced mother.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, divorce, video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings, families, family life [X], dvds [X]
Gran Torino
Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: widowers, ford torino automobile, hmong american teenage boys, gangs, hmong american families, video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings, hmong americans, teenagers, families, family life [X], dvds [X]
Roots, The Complete Collection
The complete Roots anthology which follows the history of the Kinte family.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: kinte family, slavery, african americans, families, family life [X], dvds [X], video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings, united states