Zach Braff
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Aidan Bloom, a 35-year-old struggling actor, father, and husband, is still trying to find his identity, a purpose for his life. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Chicken Little causes widespread panic about the sky falling but townspeople think it was just an acorn hitting him on the head. When a real piece of the sky lands on his head, Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends, Abby Mallard (aka Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter and Fish Out of Water, attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole new panic.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Crazy hair day: Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong.
Petunia: A silly goose learns that it takes more than just carrying a book to become wise.
How do dinosaurs go to school?: Come along for a very unusual day at school as dinosaurs enjoy story time, show-and-tell, and recess.
Monty: Monty, an alligator taxi, decides that he needs a vacation when the kids' back seat-driving...
7) Garden State
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Andrew is a moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles. He hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. Even the 3,000 miles has not separated him from the domineering father Andrew left. Stunned to find himself home for his mother's funeral, "Large" finds old acquaintances around every corner, even as he does his best to avoid the inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010], 2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The gym teacher from the black lagoon: The kids say the new gym teacher is a real monster! Imagine their surprise when they discover he is a regular guy, and they like gym.
How do dinosaurs go to school? : Explains how little dinosaurs should behave during a typical school day.
Crazy hair day: Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong.
Math curse: When the teacher tells her class...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Did the story of the three little pigs ever seem slightly biased to you? All that huffing and puffing, could one wolf really be so unequivocally evil? Finally, we get to hear the rest of the story, straight from the wolf's mouth. As Alexander T. Wolf explains it, the whole Big Bad Wolf thing was just a big misunderstanding. Find out the real story.
Series
Duck (David Shannon) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Duck on a bike : A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.
Knuffle Bunny too : This is the story of how Trixie loses her beloved bunny and gains him back, along with something new: her very first best friend.
Wallace's lists : Wallace, a mouse, can do almost anything, as long as he has a list. Then he meets a new neighbor, who loves music and adventure, and he discovers the world outside...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set in California apple country in the 1930s, nine hundred migratory workers rise up and join forces to protest unfair wages and working conditions. As the labor strike wears on and conflict grows between the apple pickers and the local growers' association, what begins as a fight for their rights turns into an all-out battle for survival in this star-studded retelling of John Steinbeck's beloved novel.
14) Moonshot
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sophie and Walt are two ordinary twentysomethings faced with the same extraordinary choice: should they follow their significant others to Mars? And since they're so ordinary, do they have the guts and the means to sneak aboard the space shuttle that is headed there?
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Back to School, More Titles - Children
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Description
This collection of 40 back-to-school tales from Scholastic Storybook Treasures is perfect for kids and families who love to watch classic storybooks come to life.
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
When Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics is hurled away to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot--until he meets three witches who aren't convinced he's the great wizard everyone's expecting. Reluctantly drawn into epic problems facing Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it's too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity--and even some wizardry--Oscar...
