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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
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Description
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young prodigy in need of family.
A painting that shatters a woman's peace.
And, a decades-old mystery demanding to be solved.
Australia, 1906
Orphan Jane Piper is nine years old when philanthropist siblings Michael and Elizabeth Quinn take her into their home to further her schooling. The Quinns are no strangers to hardship. Having arrived in Australia as penniless immigrants, they now care for others as lost as they once were. Despite Jane's...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain works,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepency involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, the body count starts to rise.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 437 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a teenage boy with extraordinary abilities appears out of nowhere near Seattle, Washington, a kindhearted social worker and her family are the only people to offer him a home. The young man's capabilities and brilliance seem to grow stronger each day, but these talents are just one clue to the mystery of the boy they call Kyle, and the questions are starting to grow: Where did he come from? Who is the man watching him? And who--or what--is Kyle?...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old idiot savant who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Rental.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepency involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, the body count starts to rise.
10) Being there
Series
Criterion collection volume 864
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
After his employer dies, a feeble-minded gardener whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television is sent out into the real world.
11) Forrest Gump
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
25th anniversity [edition].
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a good-natured man with a low IQ who personally experiences important events in American history and continues to love, albeit unreciprocated, his childhood sweetheart Jenny.
Author
Series
Susan Pulaski series volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (773 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shaun's proposed treatment for a homeless patient puts him and Jared in Andrews' crosshairs. Meanwhile, Claire tries to overcome Melendez' reluctance to do a risky heart operation while Glassman must overcome his personal feelings about his oncologist, Dr. Marina Blaize, and face a difficult decision about his health.
15) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (861 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is prestigious with many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he tries to help.
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
9. ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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