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Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
2) Cell 8
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Silver Oak
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
3) No tomorrow
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As profiled in the film Aging Out, Risa Bejarano was a foster care success story. Recently graduated, she set out for with a sense of excitement about her future. Then she was brutally murdered. As prosecutors used the film to heighten sympathy for the victim and hatred for the defendant, the filmmakers made No Tomorrow, which focuses on the trial and the unexpected use of Aging Out as evidence.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a judge orders Madea to do 20 hours of community service at a local retirement home, the residents and staff are not ready for Madea's brand of 'the truth'. All's well that ends well when Madea helps the residents of Easy Rest Retirement Home realize the importance of family, love and forgiveness.
6) Moonrise
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
7) A bug's life
Series
Publisher
Disney Enterprises Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
8) Role models
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Danny and Wheeler are two salesmen who trash a company truck while on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice - the two can either do hard time or serve 150 hours of community service in a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad. Once the center's ex-con director gives them an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are forced to tailor their brand of immature wisdom to their...
Author
Series
Heart of a hero novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Laura Trentham, the award-winning author of The Military Wife, comes An Everyday Hero--an emotionally layered novel about loss, second chances, and what it means to be a true hero"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager-and its even more shocking aftermath In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer, is sentenced to death. Indiana's minimum age for the...
12) Enchanted
Series
Publisher
Disney Enterprises Inc
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical, animated land and finds herself in reality--the gritty streets of modern-day Manhattan. Giselle, adrift in our chaotic world, is shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis. This place is badly in need of enchantment! But when she begins to fall in love with the charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her...
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