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1) Matilda
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Language
English
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
4) Whiplash
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...
5) Larry Crowne
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher. Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the early 1970s amid the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth"--
1969. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man, to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania. Her rash act will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. Charlotte's youth has been...
7) The duff
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body refers to her as "Designated Ugly Fat Friend" to her prettier, more popular friends. With her universe turned upside down, she ignores words of wisdom from her favorite teacher and enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help set her apart from the pack and erase her label forever. In doing so, she hopes to land her crush Toby, and to overthrow the...
8) Half nelson
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil's grasp,...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features the never-before-seen episode La Maestra de Música. Help Boots' teacher get to school on time to greet her students with a song, learn Spanish words, cheer up the Grumpy Old Troll, and help Dora and Boots deliver the mail.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts-unaccountable gifts, known...
Author
Series
Mr. Terupt volume 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"The kids from Mr. Terupt's fifth- and sixth-grade classes are entering their first year of junior high school. There's a lot to be excited about, but there are new challenges, too. Everyone is missing Mr. Terupt. When a fight threatens to break up the group forever, they think their favorite teacher is the only one who can help them. But the kids soon find out that it's Mr. Terupt who needs saving." --
13) Freedom Writers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
It's Sparks' crew to the rescue in ten pet-packed adventures! When an egg hatches and an unfamiliar bird emerges. Sparks' crew vows to reunite the bird with its parents. Then, a little girl's kitten is on the loose! Can the team observe how animals use their tails and apply that information to a rescue that will save the day?
15) Nutty professor
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.
16) Antlers
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become entangled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to horrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature who came before them.
17) The history boys
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
18) Mr. Woodcock
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Farley grew up as a chubby kid with no athletic skills and poor self-esteem. During his early teenage years his nemesis was Mr. Woodcock, the school's gym teacher. Woodcock took a sadistic glee in tormenting John and others like him. Years later, John has slimmed down and has come to terms with his self-image. He has become a best-selling author, publishing a self-help book on overcoming the specters of the past. John comes home to visit his...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber, inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition ; Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Julie, an aggressive college student seduces and ultimately blackmails his seemingly shy English professor; in Millicent and Therese, two polar-opposite sisters become increasingly hell-bent on the undoing of one another; and in Amelia, a woman falls prey to a murderous Zuni fetish doll.
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jerry Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted University chemistry teacher who stumbles onto a magical potion in his lab. The mixture transforms the scholarly knucklehead into a suave and smooth-talking Romeo. The object of his debonair attentions is a gorgeous student, Stella Stevens. This Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times, and the amorous suitor suffers hilarious symptoms of his...