Burton LeVar
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Series
Language
English
Description
Star Trek: The Next Generation meets The Original Series in this week's episode! William and LeVar celebrate their close friendship, and, in between gulps, the two talk about kids, LeVar's family, and Reading Rainbow's return. The actor and educator explains how being raised by a single mother, without the immediate presence of a father figure, didn't limit his ability to mature into the man that he wanted to be. LeVar describes and rates the mystery...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
4) Aftermath
Author
Language
English
Description
In the year 2019, as the United States is torn apart by political assassination, a massive earthquake, and a disastrous race war, three strangers are drawn together to rescue a woman who holds the key to a new future for humanity.
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Take a look, it's in a book, a Reading Rainbow! For over 30 years, this beloved children's television series has been bringing stories to life. Hosted by acclaimed actor LeVar Burton, journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Episodes include: The Bionic Bunny Show, Tar Beach, Enemy Pie, Amazing Grace and The Tin Forest.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 111
Publisher
GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Italian immigrant builds three unusual towers in his back yard in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
8) Almos' a man
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the short story by Richard Wright. A black teenage farm worker believes that owning a gun is a mark of maturity.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Take a look, it's in a book. For over thirty years, this beloved children's television series has been bringing stories to life. Hosted by acclaimed actor LeVar Burton, journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection.
Author
Language
English
Description
George Dawson was a slave's grandson who learned to read at age 98 and lived to the age of 103. In this remarkable memoir, he reflects on his life and shares valuable lessons in living, as well as a fresh, firsthand view of America during the entire sweep of the twentieth century. Dawson's irresistible voice and view of the world are captured here as he offers insights into humanity, history, hardships, and happiness. From segregation and civil rights...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kirk and other members of the crew of the original Enterprise attend the launching of the new Enterprise. The ship receives a distress call and they must try to rescue two ships engulfed in a ribbon of energy. Among those saved are Soran and Guinan. Kirk is killed in the process of saving the Enterprise from destruction. Four generations later, Picard receives a distress call and rescues Soran. Soran tells Picard about the Nexus, that ribbon of energy...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Called to the Neutral Zone to help negotiate peace between the Romulans and the Federation, Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are confronted by the mysterious new Romulan Praetor Shinzon, a man who claims to be Picard's clone, and who plans to lead a Romulan attack on the Federation.
Publisher
Shout! Kids
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Rescue Bots team and the Burns family are heading outside for fun and adventure! Join them as they board a ghost ship, weather the worst storm in centuries, save an endangered species, and deal with a solar flare phenomenon that knocks out all the power in Griffin Rock.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They call themselves the Borg--a half-organic, half-machine collective with a sole purpose: to conquer and assimilate all races. Led by their seductive and sadistic queen, the Borg are headed to earth with a devious plan to alter history. Picard's last encounter with the Borg almost killed him. Now, he wants vengeance.
Publisher
DSSP
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Spanning over forty years, this docudrama traces his life from his days as a sharecropper's son through his record-breaking college years, marriage to his high school sweetheart, Olympic victories, and struggle to survive in a country he loved deeply.