Frances Goodrich
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A dramatization of Anne Frank's diary in which she recorded her thoughts about hiding from the Nazis for two years in an attic in Amsterdam. Eventually, Anne and her family were discovered and sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She died there in March 1945.
Author
Series
French's acting edition volume no. 843
Pub. Date
[1958]
Description
Adapted from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, edited by Otto Frank, winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Critics Circle Award, and virtually every other coveted prize of the theatre. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and twenty two days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister, and three other people. The group went into...
Description
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, his life is shown in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?...
Series
Description
Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding due to the increasing persecutions against Jews. Businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the attic rooms above their place of business. They arrange for the Frank and Van Daan families to stay there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. Anne Frank is Otto's 13-year-old daughter. She writes about the remarkable account of their...
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
When an eccentric inventor disappears and his mistress is killed, Nick and Nora Charles get involved in the investigation; suave Nick and his bright wife Nora become involved in solving a murder when Nora's cousin is accused of killing her husband; detective Nick Charles solves the murders of three people while on a supposed vacation with his family; Nick and Nora work to solve a series of murders of racetrack and gambling figures.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Show boat (1951, 108 min.): When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Annie get...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In Easter parade, Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him.
In Meet me in St. Louis, The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transferred to a nice position in New York.
In Singin' in the rain, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver...
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
[Disc 1]. In Arsenic and old lace, a drama critic about to marry discovers insanity runs in his family. In A night at the opera, a New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal-- to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
[Disc 2]. In The long, long trailer, newlyweds hit the honeymoon road with a 40-foot trailer in tow....
18) Elizabeth Taylor
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Cat on a hot tin roof: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Butterfield 8: A high-class call girl...