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1) Coraline
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl walks through a secret door that she has found in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life, but much better. When her adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit parents, including the Other Mother, try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home - and save her family.
2) Bumblebee
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie Watson discovers and repairs an old Volkswagen Beetle as a way to remember her father and stake her independence from a stepfather she abhors, with only the music of The Smiths and the unrequited crush of the boy-next-door for friends. When she discovers the VW Bug is actually an alien robot on a reconnaissance mission for the rest of his race, the two form a bond which eventually has her putting her life on the line against evil alien robots,...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Jack lives on the sight of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.
6) Pariah
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur and younger sister Sharonda in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity - sometimes succeeding, sometimes...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stella is a vibrant, fun-loving seventeen-year-old. Unlike most teenagers, Stella has to spend much of her time living at a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. When Stella meets Will, a charming and rebellious fellow patient, she feels a powerful connection, but restrictions dictate that she and Will maintain a safe distance between them. As their feelings grow, Stella and Will face a life-changing question: How does love feel when even a single...
9) Girl flu
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Bird has to become a woman, whether she wants to or not, when she gets her first period and is ditched by her impulsive, free-spirited mom.
10) The duff
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body refers to her as "Designated Ugly Fat Friend" to her prettier, more popular friends. With her universe turned upside down, she ignores words of wisdom from her favorite teacher and enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help set her apart from the pack and erase her label forever. In doing so, she hopes to land her crush Toby, and to overthrow the...
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in ... and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out. Esther Blueburger's quest begins when she escapes from her own Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni, the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes AWOL from her ordinary life and leaves her malfunctionig Jewish family to hang out with Sunni's far...
13) Baby doll
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Cotton-mill owner Archie Meighan, married to nineteen-year-old "Baby Doll", looks forward to the day his wife turns twenty and will finally allow him to sleep with her. But he has competition in the form of sly business competitor Silva Vacarro, who covets both Archie's cotton mill AND his young and beautiful wife.
15) What Maisie knew
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Maisie, a captivating little girl struggling for grace in the midst of her parents' bitter custody battle. Told through her eyes, Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with a six-year-old's innocence, charm and generosity of spirit.
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill, recently divorced and fired, Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old high school student Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement and together they embark on a nation-wide assault on our country's dumbest, most irritating reality show and phony celebrities.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An apartment building manager, Henry Warnimont, has no great love for kids or dogs. Nevertheless, he takes the abandoned Punky in and the wide-eyed, spunky heroine brings happiness and purpose to the life of grumpy old Mr. Warnimont, and several others along the way. Contains ten episodes.
18) Gimme shelter
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Based on inspiring true events, a teenage girl flees life with her drug-addicted mother to find the wealthy father she's never known. Tells the extraordinary and courageous tale of one girl's fight against the odds to find redemption and, ultimately, to create a family she can call her own.
19) A girl like her
Publisher
The Bully Chronicles, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. But when a shocking event changes both of their lives, a documentary film crew, a hidden digital camera, and the attention of a reeling community begin to reveal the powerful truth.
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