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Napoleon Dynamite

May 21, 2013
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Napoleon Dynamite

      “Gosh”! Napoleon Dynamite can be simply described as a low budget version of an odyssey. Napoleon (Jon Heder) is a non-popular teen who struggles with both social and home life. He lives with his grandmother (Sandy Martin) and his brother Kip (Aaron Ruell). But when grandma gets hurt in an accident,...
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The Great Gatsby: From Book to Movie

May 21, 2013
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The Great Gatsby: From Book to Movie

“The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has recently been made into a movie- again! Nick Carraway, played by Tobey Maguire, finds himself living in the rich part of town. Nick’s next door neighbor Jay Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, seems a bit suspicious but always throws ‘extravagant’ parties on Saturdays. Over the summer, Nick finds...
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The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

May 21, 2013
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The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

Your name is Daryl Dixon, and almost all of your family has just been murdered right in front of you by monstrous, flesh-eating zombies. While you were off hunting in the woods with your family, the zombies came and ruined everything. Now, you must go and rescue your brother Merle, the one and only...
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My Girl

May 21, 2013
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My Girl

Set in a small town located in Pennsylvania, this is an emotional movie about a lonely young girl’s journey during the summer of 1972. Eleven year old Vada, based on her life, is played by Anna Chlumsky. Vada lives with Harry or her dad, played by Dan Aykroyd, who has a business in their...
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Featured Author: Jay Asher

May 21, 2013
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Featured Author: Jay Asher

You may all know the amazing story of Hannah Baker in Thirteen Reason Why and the great novel The future of Us, both written by this featured author Jay Asher. Both books have a very different style of writing to them. They have a way of writing that attracts the teen age group to...
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The Devil Wears Prada

May 19, 2013
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The Devil Wears Prada

Fresh out of college with a degree in journalism, Andrea Sachs, having grown up in a small New Hampshire town, has no idea what lies ahead of her when she moves to Manhattan to pursue her dream to write for the New Yorker. With little experience in the field, she knows she has to...
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Looking For Alaska

May 19, 2013
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Looking For Alaska

“Before”: Miles Halter- memorizer of last words, bored with his Florida high school and ready to venture in order to find his very own “Great Perhaps”. When he leaves Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School, he never imagines how a few people and events could change his life irrevocably. “If people...
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Yours, Mine and Ours

May 19, 2013
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Yours, Mine and Ours

Admiral Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Helen Beardsley (Rene Russo) are high school sweethearts. After high school they went their separate ways and married different people. Later on they find each other on dates at a fancy restaurant, but not with each other. Come to find out both Frank’s wife, and Helen’s husband had died...
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

May 17, 2013
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski is set in Wisconsin. Trudy and Gar Sawtelle live on a dog farm where they raise and train their special dogs and then sell them. The married couple have always wanted a child of their own. After many miscarriages, they are finally blessed with a son,...
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Green Angel

May 17, 2013
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Green Angel

“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.” ― Alice Hoffman, Green Angel Green is a young girl growing up knowing she’s different. A dark, hidden girl lost in her uneventful, routine world. She doesn’t have much except her family and her blossoming garden;...
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