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2) Airplane!
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In this spoof of disaster movies, an ex-Navy pilot with a deep aversion to planes finds himself on a flight with an ex-girlfriend he wants to win back. He becomes embroiled in a crisis where the crew and many of the passengers have fallen seriously ill. Now, it is up to him to overcome his fear of flying and land the airplane safely before the poisonings become fatal.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this spoof of The three little pigs, Mama tells her three little fish that it's time to seek their fortunes. Jim builds a house of seaweed and Tim builds a house of sand, but it's up to Kim to find the house that will stop the big bad shark's munching and crunching.
Pub. Date
c2008
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Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder,' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
8) Heartstone
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A debut novel that retells Pride and Prejudice in a world where creatures are dragons, hobgoblins, lamias, and gryphons are commonplace, HEARTSTONE takes Austen's classic tale and turns it into something new, engaging, and imaginative"--
11) Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic regency romance--now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Description
A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton--and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
13) Storm-wake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Moss lives alone with her magician father and a dog on a magical island, until a tempest sweeps a wild, not-quite-human boy, Callan, onto its beaches, and the two grow close, despite her father's worries--and then one day, a young man from the outside world is shipwrecked on her island, and after that nothing will be the same again.
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Emma Woodhouse arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma's anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. But there is only one person who can play with Emma's indestructible confidence,...
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William Shakespeare's Star Wars volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Presents the tale of yeoman Jedi Anakin Skywalker's struggles between light and dark in iambic pentameter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist.
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist. Some of the fairy tales that these stories are based on are easily recognizable and others are not. The fairy tales used include Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, the Snow Queen, and Beauty and the Beast.
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William Shakespeare's Star Wars volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A retelling of Star wars in the style of Shakespeare, in which a wise Jedi knight, an evil Sith lord, a beautiful captive princess, and a young hero coming of age reflect the valor and villainy of the Bard's greatest plays.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After her adventure at the Three Bears' house, Goldilocks starts a new school. She tries to fit in, but she's not a princess, a troll, or a ninja. Goldilocks wants a group of friends who are just right for her, but that's not so easy to find.