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Bink and Gollie: Best Friends Forever

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Copies: 7

Our favorite heroines are back to ask some big questions. Does royal blood flow through Gollie's veins? Can Bink grow tall enough to reach the peanut butter? Can the two of them, together, astonish their friends and neighbors by breaking a world record?

Clever shenanigans abound in this third book starring the marvelous companions introduced in the New York Times best-selling and Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning Bink & Gollie.

Author:

Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee

Lexile:

420L

Bink and Gollie: Two For One

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Copies: 7

Your favorite marvelous companions are back!

Meet them at the fair in this delightfully droll sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner Bink and Gollie.

The state fair is in town, and now Bink and Gollie -- utter opposites and best friends extraordinaire -- must use teamwork and their gray matter to navigate its many wonders. Will Bink win the world's largest donuet in the Whack-a-Duck game? Will Gollie wow the crowd in the talent show?

Author:

Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee

Lexile:

270L

Bink and Gollie: Two For One

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The fair is in town and these two very different girls -- but best friends extraordinaire -- use teamwork to navigate its many wonders.

Author:

Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:14

And Then it's Spring

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A young boy and his dog decide they have had enough of winter, so they resolve to plant a garden. Join them as they savor the anticipation of new growth.

Author:

Julie Fogliano

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:08

My Garden

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A girl dreams of creating a garden full of chocolate rabbits, flowers that change colors, seashells and tomatoes the size of beach balls. Narrated by Cassandra Morris with music by Ernest Troost.

Author:

Kevin Henkes

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:10

About Face: Copley's Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith

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Curriculum ideas centered around the Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith by John Singleton Copley, housed at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. Teachers will have to wade through some repetitive info and the occasional broken link to find useful ideas, but the concept fits perfectly within the 4th grade Interdependent Roles in Colonial Times Module.

The Coffins of Pa-debehu-Aset

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Lesson plans and activities from the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester designed for young children to learn about Ancient Egypt in Art, Math, Music, ELA, Science, and Social Studies. Incorporates museum collection into learning.

The Monkey's Paw

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From director Ricky Lewis, Jr. comes an old fashioned ghost story full of Gothic atmosphere that will chill you to the bone. In England of 1936, a family takes possession of a mystical talisman said to grant the bearer three wishes, but the wishes they ask bring terror and tragedy upon their lives. Based on the famous short story by W.W. Jacobs, it's an epic and horrifying tale that moves from the darkest jungle of India to the fog shrouded Moors with the warning that fate isn't to be tampered with.

Director:

Ricky Lewis Jr.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:29

Fahrenheit 451

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Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important screen innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Julie Christie stars in the challenging dual role of Oskar Werner's pleasure-seeking conformist wife, Linda, and his rebellious, book-collecting mistress, Clarisse.

Director:

Francois Truffaut

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:53

Tuck Everlasting

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Walt Disney Pictures' Tuck Everlasting, a timeless and enchanting adventure about one girl's magical summer, will captivate audiences of any age. Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Soon she happens upon Jesse Tuck—a boy full of life and adventure who's unlike anyone she's ever met—and falls in love. The Tucks, a kind and generous family, have a powerful secret — a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life.

Director:

Jay Russell

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:30

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