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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam leaves home for the mountains after being told that the family trip has been canceled, preventing him from doing the algae experiments he had planned for. The film chronicles his struggle for independence, and his battle with the forces of natures. *"A slender, honest study of a boy learning to be a man in his own way." - Howard Thompson, **The New York Times***
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xii, 177, 170, xii, 258 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
138 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This guide to the outdoors provides advice and instructions on camping, building shelters, finding water, and cooking outdoors. Some activities may require adult supervision.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sadie and her father have been planning a trip to the zoo for a long time but something always gets in the way, so when they finally start out and her father sees some raindrops, Sadie insists there is no rain on her side of the car.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Olympic hopeful Jill Kinmont, who was paralyzed in a skiing accident while competing in a pre-Olympic competition in the 1950's. Left paralyzed from the neck down, she overcame self-pity and helplessness to become a teacher on a Paiute reservation.
Author
Series
Journals of Thomas Merton volume 7
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 348 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of unprecedented freedom, culminating in the opportunity to travel to California, Alaska, and finally the Far East – journeys that offer him new possibilities and causes for contemplation. In his last days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton continues to follow the tumultuous events of the sixties, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
viii, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her parents were forced back to Mexico in this galvanizing yet tender memoir. Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips as she entered her freshman year of high school as the number one student. But suddenly, Elizabeth's own country took away the...
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