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1) Goosebumps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah, living right next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
4) Goosebumps 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people's trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a locked book that frees a supernatural nightmare. Slappy! Now, with the help of Sonny's sister, Sarah, they're in a race against time to get the sinister dummy and all the creatures he's brought to life back into the pages before he unleashes total pandemonium!
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale of adventure and fantasy, which sends a young boy into the pages of the world's greatest stories. Seeking refuge from a storm, timid Richard Tyler enters an empty library only to be swept away into the magical animated world of The Pagemaster, where legendary characters from literary classics come alive. Guided by a trio of talking books--Adventure, Fantasy and Horror--Richard must conquer his greatest fears before he can find his way home....
6) Mr. Pip
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people...
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. 'What has gotten into Myne?' they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a 'What' but a 'Who': Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the new...
10) NightJohn
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
When a new slave named NightJohn is brought to the plantation, he opens a whole new world for Sarny because he has forbidden talents; he can read and he can teach.
Series
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The neverending story III: Now a troubled young teenager, Bastian rediscovers the magic book that is a portal to the world of Fantasia and finds comfort in it from his real world pressures, but when a gang of bullies steals the book and inadvertently releases Fantasia's creatures into this world, it is up to Bastian to defeat the bullies and return the creatures to their home; three children search for their missing astrophysicist father and enter...
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