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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
World War Two has been declared and the Chivers children are sent to the safety of the countryside. They are delighted to be brought back home when it looks like the Germans aren't going to invade after all. But the air-raid siren goes off and this time it's frighteningly real.
3) Opposite day
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After a nine-year-old boy wishes that kids were in charge of the world, he wakes up the next day to realize that his wish came true.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Peppa is a loveable, cheeky little piggy who lives with her younger brother George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig. Peppa's favorite things include playing games, dressing up, days out and jumping in muddy puddles. Her adventures always end happily with loud snorts of laughter.
6) Wonder
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A stowaway from darkest Peru, Paddington eventually finds himself alone in Paddington Station, a tag around his neck reading: 'Please look after this bear. Thank you.' When the Brown family takes him home, they get a lot more than they bargained for. Contains 56 episodes, plus three half -hour TV specials, and 15 bonus episodes.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josh Duhamel and Megan Fox star in this whimsical family comedy about a boy and his dog, and a science project that will change all of their lives forever. It follows twelve-year-old Oliver, a tech prodigy, whose middle-school science fair experiment goes awry, creating a telepathic connection between him and his furry friend, Henry. The bond brings Oliver and Henry even closer as they join forces to comically overcome complications at school, and...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Marion "Mad Dog" Casey is one of the biggest and most outrageous names in professional football. When he begins looking after his ten-year old daughter Lacy, chauffeuring her to ballet and theatre class activities she doesn't really like, Marion discovers she has a knack for soccer. He signs her up and begins his new life as a Soccer Dad, and learns the importance of being the best dad on and off the field.
12) Duke
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Marine Sergeant Terry Pulaski, a once proud man, is now a broken shell of himself having returned from Iraq with both PTSD and a disabling injury. Terry struggles to be a good father and husband, but his challenges leave him feeling like a burden to his wife and daughter. With his dog Duke in tow, he decides to leave his family behind.
13) Paddington
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Brother and Sister plan to avoid Widder Jones' house when they go trick or treating because neighborhood lore has it that she2s a witch. Mama knows Widder Jones personally and tells the cubs what a sweet person she is. When the evening is over the cubs agree with Mama. They enjoyed visiting Widder Jones more than anyone else that Halloween.
15) Sounder
Pub. Date
2008, 1972.
Language
English
Description
An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s. The father steals food from his neighbor to feed his starving family and is arrested, leaving his wife, their three children, and their dog Sounder, to endure the hardships of poverty and prejudice in the Depression-era South. Based on the Newbery Award book by William H. Armstrong.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The monster family embarks on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy...
17) Furry vengeance
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometimes four legs are better than two. Dan just moved his wife and son to the woods to take a new job with a supposedly eco-friendly housing development. But the fur, and Dan's temper, is sure to fly when the local critters learn of the bleak plans for their forest home and stop at nothing to halt construction.
18) The Santa trap
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After a young girl catches Santa in a trap and her parents have him arrested, they realize he really is Santa Claus.
When Santa finds himself in jail, a young girl tries to prove it's really him, and her parents discover how real he is when eight reindeer show up on their roof. Can the whole family get together to save Christmas without Santa?
19) The wizard
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A boy decides to take his autistic video game-playing brother to a national video game competition across the country.
20) Prancer
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Little Jessica (Harrell) finds an injured reindeer in the forest; she is convinced this reindeer is Santa's Prancer and she plans to nurse it back to health. Her father (Elliott) has other plans.
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