John Heard
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A wealthy entrepeneur has found scientists who are able to genetically reconstruct dinosaurs from DNA contained in mosquitoes found embedded in amber. He plansto build a park, with real, living dinosaurs as the main attraction, on an isolated island. Shortly beforeopening the completed park to the public, he invites several important scientists for a preview, not knowing that a catastrophe is inevitable.
2) Awakenings
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"Great news--Kevin McCallister is spending the holidays in New York City. Bad news--his parents are spending them in Florida! Separated once again from his family, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his dad's credit card. But his big-spending solo act takes a dangerous turn when the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv escape prison and also land in the Big Apple. Now, Kevin must outrun and outprank them again"--Container.
4) Beaches
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.
5) Home alone
Language
English
Description
An eight-year-old boy is left home alone on Christmas, and has to defend his home against two bumbling burglars.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Lyon's perfect life takes a jolting nose-dive after news of a fatal mid-air explosion aboard a plane piloted by her husband. The tension increases when the black box is recovered and reveals shocking rumors that the crash may have been caused by her husband. Could her husband have secretly been a terrorist? Was her entire life with him a lie?
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well-paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes, resulting in Jim losing his job, home, and wife. Filled with rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme measures to seek revenge for the life taken from him.
11) Cutter's way
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When his best friend is accused of murder, a Vietnam veteran tries to solve the case.
13) Snake eyes
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A flamboyant Atlantic City police detective goes to watch a heavyweight championship fight and cash in on the hectic betting. Suddenly, gunfire cuts down a ringside government official and Santoro has 14,000 suspects. The clues all lead to a shattering truth Santoro does not want to believe.
14) Beaches
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Traces the friendship of two very different women who meet on a beach as young girls, through good and bad times, career and marriage changes until together they must face a final challenge as only best friends can.
15) Desert blue
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When cable TV starlet Skye gets stuck in the tiny town of Baxter, California, the last thing she wants to do is get to know the local teens. But when a mysterious chemical spill forces the FBI to put the town under quarantine, Skye has no choice but to stay put, and she realizes she might not be in such a rush to get back to the big city after all.
16) 187
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Dedicated science instructor Trevor Garfield is a man with a passion for learning. Garfield is skilled, smart, committed: the total package as a teacher. But he's also human. And what he confronts in a school turned increasingly into a battlefield may be more than he can bear. Maybe he'll quit teaching. Or caring. Or maybe he'll take justice into his own hands.
17) The guardian
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
An aging United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Just prior to this same mission his wife announces that she cannot take anymore. This leaves him an emotional wreck. His commander gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position and moves into the school. Once there he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum...
18) Big
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him 'big'. He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
20) Pollock
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before...