Gary Sinise
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...
2) Forrest Gump
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a good-natured man with a low IQ who personally experiences important events in American history and continues to love, albeit unreciprocated, his childhood sweetheart Jenny.
3) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
True story of how three astronauts, stranded 205,000 miles above the earth, fight a battle to survive while Mission Control works against time to bring them home.
4) Open season
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A grizzly bear domesticated by a park ranger and an accident prone deer band together with other forest animals to drive hunters from the forest.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course...