Whoopi Goldberg
Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Triplets Jessica, JoAnn, and Jerzey and their friends in ballet class try to keep the building that houses The Nutcracker School from being torn down, while also trying to rescue a stray kitten.
Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Alexandrea is forced to leave her friends in Apple Creek when her mother insists on enrolling her at Harlem's Nutcracker School of Ballet, and while Al is already aware that she lacks dance skills, things get worse when she is chosen to be the Sugar Plum fairy in the school recital.
Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Brenda Black prides herself on her logical and orderly mind, but when her spoiled cousin Tiffany visits, Brenda tells a lie and must rely on the help of her Sugar Plum Sisters to help make things right.
Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 4
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Nine-year-old Terrel Liu tries to sabotage her father's new relationship with the aunt of her ballet class nemesis.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Set in New Orleans about an irreverent young woman who unexpectedly falls in love with her doctor. Marley Corbett is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she's afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither thought possible.
11) Rat Race
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
A casino tycoon gives six contestants a chance to win two million dollars in a race from Las Vegas to New Mexico.
12) Everyone's hero
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and the true meaning of friendship.
13) Sister act
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
A lounge singer witnesses a mob hit and must hide out until she can testify against the killers. The police put her in the custody of a convent, where she soon begins to transform the sisters.
14) Ghost
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Description
Ghost will surprise you, delight you, make you believe. Patrick Swayze plays a ghost who teams with a psychic to uncover the truth behind his murder - and to rescue his sweetheart from a similar fate.
Description
See the real story behind the lion king--at least from Timon and Pumbaa's perspective. The truth will be exposed about some "passed" events - such as when King Mufasa introduced his young heir to the animal kingdom. Reveals the true hullabaloo behind their departures from the meerkat and warthog 'hoods. Tag along as the two buddies from the brush search for their dream home, share their joys and trials as they raise young Simba using the "Hakuna Matata"...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record.
17) Eddie
Pub. Date
1997
Description
A die hard basketball fan with a slammin' sense of humor shocks everyone when she wins a half-time contest that leads to the head coaching job for the New York Knicks.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
A documentary film following the man behind the the beloved children's icon, Elmo; examining the life of puppeteer Kevin Clash; providing a behind-the-scenes views of Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop; and featuring interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O'Donnell, Cheryl Henson, and Joan Ganz Cooney.
Pub. Date
1999
Description
A wife and mother is faced with rebuilding her life, and her family, after they have been shockingly torn apart. When their son disappears, the pain of a lost child ravages the Cappadora family for nearly a decade. But when he suddenly returns, the entire family must come to a painful reunion of their own.