Aaron Johnson
Author
Series
National park mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
While camping in Zion National Park, Jake Evans and his friends uncover a new set of cryptic clues hidden in his grandfather's scrapbook. Battling unpredictable weather, unforeseen challenges, and an elusive adversary, the three friends are forced to rely on their problem-solving skills, the power of their growing friendship, and the courage to do the right thing.
Author
Series
National park mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, Jake and his friends travel to the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado. Exploring the heart of the dunes, they stumble upon something both unexpected and dangerous. Through more twists and turns, Jake's friendships and integrity are tested by choices that will demand smarts and courage. The mystery unfolds as Jake, Amber, and Wes learn about survival skills, natural history, integrity, character, and...
Author
Series
National park mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Follow the clues to real locations on a quest to solve an ancient mystery. The scavenger hunt takes Jake and his friends, where few people venture to go, into the depths of the Grand Canyon. Jake, Amber, and Wes encounter new dangers and find their friendship tested as they follow the clues Jake’s grandfather hid away in the old scrapbook. The stakes are higher, and the history goes deeper as the three kids put their heads together to solve a puzzle...
6) Godzilla
Series
MonsterVerse volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
"This Godzilla is ready for his close-up, and he looks pretty great in Imax 3-D."--Washington Post
"...the latest Godzilla springs to life and wakes up the wide-eyed kid in all of us."--Rolling Stone
"(Director) Edwards...
9) Savages
Pub. Date
2012.
Formats
Description
Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry, raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town, until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them.
10) Albert Nobbs
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
11) Tenet
Description
"An unnamed CIA operative, known as The Protagonist, is recruited by a mysterious organization called Tenet to participate in a global assignment that unfolds beyond real time. The mission: prevent Andrei Sator, a renegade Russian oligarch with precognition abilities, from starting World War III. The Protagonist will soon master the art of 'time inversion' as a way of countering the threat that is to come." --imdb.com.
12) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Pub. Date
[2017]
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...
14) The thief lord
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel for Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
15) Bullet train
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe, all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives, on the world's fastest train.
16) The Wall
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them. Their fight becomes as much a battle of will and wits as it is of lethally accurate marksmanship.
"...the best kind of war film..."--Toronto Star
"It's pretty darn good."--Washington Post
17) The Thief Lord
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel for Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
18) Kick-Ass
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
19) The greatest
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Three months after Allen and Grace's son dies, a young woman shows up pregnant with his child. At first her arrival threatens to tear the family further apart, but eventually she proves to be the very thing that brings them back together.
20) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.