David Henrie
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
1000 to 1 is the inspiring true story of Cory Weissman, basketball star who scored 1,000 points in high school and was expected to be a standout athlete at Gettysburg college. Following a catastrophic stroke at the end of his freshman year, the film chronicles cory's against all odds comeback from a life threatening illness with the help of his mother, tina, a physical therapist, as well as the encouragement of both his dedicated basketball coach...
2) Little boy
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Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
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Pub. Date
c2012
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"In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, little people called Borrowers live quietly among us. But when tenacious and tiny Arrietty is discovered by Shawn, a human boy, their secret and forbidden friendship blossoms into an extraordinary adventure"--Container.
4) Little boy
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[2015]
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
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From the publisher. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of history -- social, economic, and...
6) Walden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
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Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.[2] The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. Thoreau also used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near...
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One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism… "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
...Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Follow the Russo family as they vacation at the Caribbean resort where Jerry and Theresa first met. Alex's mom makes her go on the family vacation - something Alex is not too pleased about. She conjures a spell that erases her parents' fateful first meeting and puts the Russo family's very existence in peril.
9) Cape Cod
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A narrative description of Cape Cod's landscape, its inhabitants, shore, plant, and animal life. A chronical of Henry David Thoreau's journey of discovery along this evocative coastline.
10) 1000 to 1
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
1000 to 1 is the inspiring true story of Cory Weissman, basketball star who scored 1,000 points in high school and was expected to be a standout athlete at Gettysburg college. Following a catastrophic stroke at the end of his freshman year, the film chronicles cory's against all odds comeback from a life threatening illness with the help of his mother, tina, a physical therapist, as well as the encouragement of both his dedicated basketball coach...
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[2015]
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Walt Disney visited New York in an attempt to secure a deal for his company, but failed. On a train ride back with his wife Lillian Disney he created the concept of a mouse named Mortimer, which would become Mickey Mouse. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Walt Disney gave the draft to Ub Iwerks who then completed the design for Mickey Mouse.
13) Nature
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This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, and suggested that reality can be understood by studying nature. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: Commodity, Beauty, Language and Discipline. These distinctions define how humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication...
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Justin Russo wins an essay contest and a free cruise on the S.S. Tipton and tries to get a date with London Tipton. Max Russo challenges Zack Martin to some hilarious challenges. While, Alex Russo tries to convince her parents to let her stay on board. Bailey Pickett tells Cody Martin that a famous person is coming onboard the ship. Hannah Montana is going to board. In an effort to impress Bailey and finally win her over, he tells her that he is great...
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
Follow the Russo family as they vacation at the Caribbean resort where Jerry and Theresa first met. Alex's mom makes her go on the family vacation - something Alex is not too pleased about. She conjures a spell that erases her parents' fateful first meeting and puts the Russo family's very existence in peril.
16) Walking
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Pub. Date
1993.
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Walking is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture,...
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Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years he lived there as simply as possible, seeking "the essential facts of life" and learning to eliminate the unnecessary details-material and spiritual-that intrude upon our happiness. He described his experiences in Walden, using vivid, forceful prose that transforms his reflections on nature into richly evocative metaphors to live by. George Eliot's...
19) The Maine woods
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Thoreau's narratives of his journeys into the Maine wilderness are presented
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Pub. Date
[1993]
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From the publisher. Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of his most frequently cited and read essays: 'Civil Disobedience,' his most powerful and influential political essay, exalts the law of conscience...