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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she is separated from her mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
Español
Formats
Description
When Lety jumps at the chance to write animal profiles for the Furry Friends Animal Shelter, she is forced to team up with a grumpy classmate named Hunter, who devises a contest to decide who gets to be the official shelter scribe.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Una historia de amistad, de supervivencia, de personajes entrañables, de lealtades inquebrantables, amores imposibles y traiciones imperdonables. Afganistán, 2004. La doctora Edith Lombard, de Médicos Sin Fronteras, hace guardia en un hospital de Kabul. Al atender a una joven en quirófano advierte en su cuello algo que atrae su atención: un collar del que cuelga una perla de ámbar. Una perla que Edith reconoce enseguida, pues fue robada en...
5) Rough Riders
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fact-based, rough and tumble western depicting a young and energetic Theodore Roosevelt leading his legendary Rough Riders in their fight against oppressive Spanish rule at the turn of the 20th century.
6) Sira
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada una trágica desventura que la obligará a reinventarse, tomar sola las riendas de su vida y luchar con garra para encauzar el porvenir. Entre hechos históricos que marcarán...
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, a complicated WWII saga told in flashback sequences. Best Picture, Best Director-Anthony Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress-Juliette Binoche. Includes exclusive bonus material and special packaging.
9) Titus
Publisher
c
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special edition
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the Shakespeare play by the same name, Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
11) Flyboys
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States' involvement in WWI, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.
12) Patton
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
14) Joyeux Noel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
17) Taking Chance
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's heartland, he will find himself on an unexpectedly emotional journey...
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
After learning of a former infantry mate's attempted suicide, journalist Esteban returns to the Falkland Islands (or in Argentina, known as the Malvinas) to confront the horrors he experienced as an eighteen-year-old soldier. Presents the harrowing story of a group of young men sent to fight an un-winnable war and left to bear its emotional scars.
20) Abraham Lincoln
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (23 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in 1861, the Civil War divided the country, pitting 'brother against brother' in a conflict that threatened to permanently destroy the union. If not for the dedication and firm resolve of Abraham Lincoln during this difficult time, the United States may have ceased to exist. In Abraham Lincoln, kids will examine the life of this country boy from Kentucky who rose to become President of the United States, and who guided his country through...
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