Danny Devito
1) Migration
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mallard family is in a bit of a rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids - teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen - the whole wide world. After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family trip, via New York City, to tropical Jamaica.
2) The Lorax
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In search of a real, live tree, a twelve-year-old boy pays a visit to the reclusive Once-ler, who tells him the story of the grumpy, yet charming Lorax, who tried to protect the forest by speaking up on behalf of the trees.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the...
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Annie: Adaptation of the classic story of a little orphan girl who is adopted by a wealthy man to whom she teaches the riches of the heart.; Madeline: Adaptation of the classic book about twelve little orphaned schoolgirls and their teacher.; Matilda: An intelligent child is oppressed by both her monstrous parents and awful school principal. She befriends her nice teacher and learns to unleash telekinetic powers to drive her principal away.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Battle of the Books 2021-2022: ELEMENTARY
Battle of the Books 2021-2022: INTERMEDIATE
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Battle of the Books 2021-2022: INTERMEDIATE
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Formats
Description
Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.
10) Matilda
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Matilda is a super-smart little girl who's misunderstood by her parents, brother, and evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.
11) Freedom Writers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
12) Get Shorty
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
13) The Lorax
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
14) Reality bites
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Four Gen X'ers try to find life after college.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A Musical Romance starring Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei, Robert Carlyle and John Goodman that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Frank has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. En route to fulfill a forty-year promise to his childhood sweetheart, the stranger shares a compelling tale of adolescent love replete with first...
16) Smallfoot
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bright young yeti finds something he thought didn't exist: a human. News of this throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all-new story about friendship, courage, and the joy of discovery.
17) The rainmaker
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A rookie lawyer in over his head on a high-profile case hires a feisty paralawyer who specializes in flunking the bar. Their chances of winning are slim to none until they uncover a trail of corruption.
19) Nobel son
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of Barkley Michaelson's father receiving the Nobel Prize, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel Prize money. When his father refuses to pay, Barkely decides to use his smarts and finally show his father just how close the apple falls from the tree.