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41) Chicken Little
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Chicken Little causes widespread panic when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. After the fall out, the youngster becomes determined to restore his reputation . But just as things are starting to go his way, 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...
42) Glory road
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
Pub. Date
[2006], p2005
Description
"It's 1953 and the piece of talking furniture called TV is still a novelty in America's living rooms. On it, Senator Joseph McCarthy uses fear, falsehoods and belligerence to become arguably the most powerful man in the land. On it, newsman Edward R. Murrow, who's had his fill of the senator's tactics, fights back."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Wolfgang Petersen adapted Michael Ende's children's story for this charming fantasy film that spawned several sequels. Bastian (Barret Oliver) is dealing with his mother's recent death. His father (Gerald McRaney) is an imperious sort who continually lambastes Bastian for daydreaming and falling behind in school. On top of his father's badgering, he has to contend with a bunch of school bullies waiting for him in the schoolyard. One day he decides...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
It's 'veggie-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood. The two enterprising friends are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition they find that their business is booming. They come to find out that running a "humane" pest control outfit can have its drawbacks. Suddenly, a large and mysterious veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable...
49) Robots
Description
With the help of his misfit mechanical friends, a small town robot named Rodney embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as he heads for the big city to pursue his dreams and ultimately proves that anyone can shine no matter what they're made of.
50) Shark tale
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Oscar is a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, who becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian Great White shark, Lenny, and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it's up to Oscar's loyal friend Angie and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water and find his true place in the reef.
51) Wooly boys
Description
Charles has no idea what he's in for when his grandfather, Stoney, comes to Minneapolis for medical treatment. A pampered, big-city kid, Charles has a difficult time relating to this old man from a sheep ranch. But when Stoney's pal Chuck shows up to break Stoney out of the hospital, Charles is swept up in the adventure of a lifetime. From a stolen hearse to a wild, hilarious race back to the Badlands of North Dakota, Charles learns to appreciate...
52) Brother bear
Pub. Date
2004
Description
An impetuous Inuit boy is transformed into a bear and learns valuable life lessons.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Garfield's owner, Jon, takes in sweet, but dimwitted pooch Odie, turning Garfield's perfect world upside-down. Now Garfield wants only one thing: Odie out of his home and his life! But when the hapless pup disappears and is kidnapped by a nasty dog trainer, Garfield, feeling responsible, tears himself away from the TV and springs into action.
54) Finding Nemo
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
The fretful Marlin and his young son Nemo become separated from each other in the Great Barrier Reef. Nemo, a clown fish, is unexpectedly taken from his home and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor. Buoyed by the companionship of a friendly fish named Dory, Marlin embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero.
Series
James Bond volume 21
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cohoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world.
57) Cats & Dogs
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Know to be man's best friends, cats and dogs have engaged in a fierce and merciless battle. Now, Mr. Tinkles, a ruthless cat, is plotting intensively to achieve nothing less than world domination. His main target is Professor Brody. The professor is working on a medication that will rid people of their dog hair allergies. Mr. Tinkles strives to get to the substance and have it analyzed. He then means to have it altered so that all humans of the world...
59) My Dog Skip
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
An amazing terrier named Skip helps a young boy turn bullies into friends, win the affection of the prettiest girl in school, and tangle with moonshiners.
60) Deep impact
Description
'Deep Impact' is the story of the world's reaction to a death sentence. As a comet approaches the earth which might not be destroyed or divertedbefore it reaches earth, each individual struggles in the face of extinction to find what most matters to him or her.