Summary: Eager to flee from his drunken father and the confining life with Widow Douglass and Miss Watson, Huck sets off on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave, in tow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ADVSummary: It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALE RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALESummary: A young boy must convince his parents that a toy rifle is the only Christmas gift that will make Christmas worthwhile. Not only do his parents face what many other parents do during that time of the year, but their actions fit in with the All-American Christmas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2005Summary: After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD JAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JaSummary: When James accidentally spills some magic crocodile tongues near an old peach tree, one of the peaches grows as huge as a house. James discovers a secret entranceway into the peach, were he befriends the insects that live inside of it. When the stem snaps off of the tree, the peach starts rolling away, and James and his friends begin to have exciting adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD JamesSummary: A young boy ventures into the woods despite his grandfather's warning, and his courage is tested in an encounter with a wolf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Prokofiev's musical score comes alive as Peter awakens to the first day of spring. The beautiful morning turns into an amazing adventure as Peter and his friends--a bird, a cat, and a deliciously dizzy duck--outwit a mighty wolf. In a live-action story intertwining the animation, a real boy named Peter discovers the magic of imagination and the spirit of adventure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PETSummary: Ernest Terry, like most boys his age, is obsessing over George Lucas's Star Wars saga. In the woods outside Ernest's neighborhood, capture-the-flag contests escalate into sprawling Jedi battles, with bright yellow Wiffle ball bats substituting for lightsabers. But when a bully snaps Ernest's already-damaged 'weapon' in half, our hero and his friends accept a mission: Follow a nearby stream to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014