Roscoe Lee Browne
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
Series
Language
English
Description
Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...
3) Logan's run
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 23rd century, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. Logan 5, a Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carrousel, decides to become a Runner himself...
6) Logan's run
Pub. Date
2000, 1976.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) :; sd., color ;; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
7) The cowboys
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither Andersen nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oliver is a homeless kitten who roams the streets of New York City. There, he is taken in by a gang of homeless mutts who survive by stealing from others. During one of these criminal acts, Oliver meets a wealthy young girl named Jenny Foxworth. This meeting will forever change his life.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (75 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...