Kenneth Branagh
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again--p. 4 cover.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follows a young Jack as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancé...
5) Cinderella
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, young Ella does not give into despair when she is made a servant by her stepmother and stepsisters and soon finds what she thinks is a kindred soul when she befriends a handsome stranger in the woods, unaware that he is the Prince.
6) All is true
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
Language
English
Description
Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Examines the 155-million-year history of dinosaurs from the aggressive Coelophysis, who first learned to hunt in packs, to Tyrannosaurus Rex, the most terrifying carnivore on the planet. Covers the Late Triassic, Late Jurassic, Early Cretaceous, and Late Cretaceous periods.
11) Valkyrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true event, Colonel von Stauffenberg and his fellow officers attempt to assassinate the Führer.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Wallander returns with the next set of thrilling tales set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. These stories follow Kurt Wallander, a sensitive but brilliant detective, a man who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth, even at the expense of his health and his family life. Beautifully filmed, Wallander is a compelling series featuring an extremely likeable and entirely believable...
14) King Lear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
15) Thor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero.
16) Sleuth
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Remake of the 1972 film in which a mystery novelist invites his wife's lover to his house and plays diabolical and deadly tricks on him, only to have the games returned in revenge.
17) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
19) Wild wild West
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Special agent James West and fellow agent and crackerjack inventor Artemus Gordon team up on a daring assignment to stop legless Dr. Arliss Loveless and his diabolical plot for a Disunited States of America.
20) Shackleton
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica.