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Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Alice is nineteen-years-old, fed up with her small town life, her dead-end job and an embarrassing mother. Alice takes off and heads down to Florida. Not long after her escape her car breaks down. Two good samaritans seem to appear out of nowhere and offer to drive Alice the rest of the way. Bill and Sandra are middle-aged retirees traveling the country in their RV. Sandra takes Alice in, as if she were her own daughter. But as the miles pass, Alice...
4) The innocent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Igby and his older brother, Oliver, are are in the process of killing their terminally ill mother. His parents snipe at each other endlessly until his father tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental hospital. Igby grows into a rebellious youth, gets kicked out of several boarding schools and ends up in a military academy. As Igby gets drawn further into the mind games and hypocrisy of the adult world, his already jaded outlook grows even darker....
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Should she leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem an easy decision, but for 18-year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Disc 1, Episode one. Something to treasure: Hetty and Geoffrey head to Cumbria, where a miner's widow enlists them in the search for a missing book penned by her late husband. The widow claims the book was stolen. But is she really after the book--or its map to a cache of precious minerals hidden somewhere inside the mine? -- Episode 2. Family values: When a wealthy client asks Hetty to investigate suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of...
10) Standoff
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television reporter Tiel McCoy, headed out Interstate 20 on vacation, changes her plans when she hears that the teenage daughter of a Fort Worth multimillionaire has been kidnapped, deciding instead to cover the story that brings her face-to-face with a pair of desperate young lovers.
11) Trust
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.
12) Better off dead
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002, c1985
Language
English
Description
A teen feels despondent when his girlfriend dumps him, and he manages to bungle all his suicide attempts.
14) Tadpole
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, Oscar is not exception. He is an honor student at an exclusive prep school, he is confident, intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in literary works. His parents are divorced and his father has recently remarried. Sensing that his stepmother isn't happy in the marriage, Oscar begins waging a low-key but ardent campaign to seduce her. His efforts to bed Eve attract the attention...
15) Rushmore
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A gifted, rebellious teenager finds himself in competition with a wealthy older man for a favorite teacher's affections.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Grammy nominee. Fourteen-year-old Gary, a self-described tree toad lover of a perfect lawn, the soft-porn masterpiece Carnal Cuties, his Underwood typewriter, and, above all, his rebellious cousin Katelives through one amazing Lake Wobegon summer. Gary preoccupies himself by spinning fantastic yarns about boogers, talking dogs, conversations between God and Jesus, and especially melodramas featuring himself as hero and Kate as distressed damsel.When...
17) Crazy/beautiful
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The spoiled daughter of a prominent California congressman is a willful, self-destructive girl who masks her insecurity by treating life as one big party staged solely for her benefit. A barrio boy, Carlos, from the wrong side of town, but goes to school with weathly Nicole, has a chance encounter with her that leads to romance -- a romance that threatens his future when her reckless behavior nearly costs him an appointment to Annapolis.
18) Snow angels
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A heartrending portrayal of three couples after an unexpected act of violence disrupts their lives. They experience the profound moments in which they realize how precarious and remarkable life can be.
19) Pleasantville
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When 90's teens David and Jennifer get zapped into the perfect suburbia of the black & white 50's sitcom, Pleasantville, chaos ensues.
20) Maryam
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Language
English
Description
It's 1979 and Mary, an Iranian-American teenager is pursuing fun and romance in the New Jersey suburbs. Her strict father forbids her to date and live life like a normal teenager. But her world is changed when her fundamentalist Muslim cousin, Ali, comes to live with her family at the same time that Americans are taken hostage in Iran. Now Mary has to come to terms with her own unique, culturally-divided identity.
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