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By Woodard, Alfre, 1953- Crouse, Lindsay Fox, Mem, 1946- Troost, Ernest V Gagne, Paul R., 1956- Steig, Jeremy Ledgerwood, Lee Ann Mejia, Roger Ivanick, Daniel Reilly, Melissa Binch, Caroline Vivas, Julie, 1947- Hoffman, Mary, 1945-. Amazing Grace Steig, William, 1907-2003. Brave Irene Fox, Mem, 1946-. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridgec2005., Juvenile, Weston Woods Studios ; Scholastic Call No: DVD 604 WOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Amazing Grace: Even though her classmates discourage Grace from trying out for Peter Pan in the school play because she is black and a girl, Grace wins the part and proves that she can be anything she wants to be. --Brave Irene: Irene summons up all her courage in the face of a fierce snowstorm when her mother falls ill and Irene must deliver a ball gown to the duchess. --Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge: A small boy helps an old friend remember, when her memory is not as sharp as it used to be. --Container.
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By Walt Disney Pictures Leighton, Eric Zondag, Ralph Green, Walon Sweeney, D. B. (Daniel Bernard), 1961- Woodard, Alfre, 1953- Davis, Ossie Casella, Max Panettiere, Hayden Wright, Samuel E Margulies, Julianna, 1966- Siragusa, Peter Plowright, Joan Reese, Della Disney DVD Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)[2001]., General, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD FIC DINOSAUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
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By Moore, Simon Kenworthy, Duncan Sturridge, Charles Danson, Ted, 1947- Steenburgen, Mary Fox, James, 1939- Beatty, Ned Chaplin, Geraldine, 1944- Fox, Edward, 1937- Gielgud, John, 1904-2000 Hardy, Robert, 1925- Kapoor, Shashi Lyndhurst, Nicholas Nicholls, Phoebe Parsons, Karyn Scott-Thomas, Kristin, 1960- Sharif, Omar, 1932- Standing, John, 1934- Wells, John, 1936[2008], Genius Entertainment Call No: DVD Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The tale of an 18th-century physician who takes eight years to travel through a variety of fantastical lands, only to have everyone but his wife take him for a madman when he returns home.
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2005., Juvenile, Sweet Blackberry LLC Call No: 791.43 72 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: " . . . takes a magical look at the historic true tale of slave Henry Box Brown, a man who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1848 . . . . With the help of characters including Bird, Horse, Cricket and Cat, Henry avoids being discovered and makes his way to freedom. While on his dangerous and exciting journey, Henry shares what freedom means to him and why slavery is wrong."--Container.
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-- August Wilson's The piano lesson.c2002., Hallmark Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride and struggle that symbolizes their survival as a family. To resolve the conflict they must first deal with the past.
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-- Readings from the slave narratives.By Glover, Jacqueline Lennon, Thomas Harris, Mark Jonathan, 1941- Bell, Ed Bassett, Angela Boatman, Michael, 1964- Browne, Roscoe Lee Cheadle, Don Davis, Ossie Dee, Ruby Guillaume, Robert Guy, Jasmine Jackson, Samuel L Pounder, C. C. H Smith, Roger Guenveur Vance, Courtney B Williams, Vanessa Winfrey, Oprah Woodard, Alfre, 1953- Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950- Home Boc2003., General, HBO Documentary Films : Distributed by HBO Video Call No: DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record.