Tony Kushner
1) Brundibar
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, and they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp...
Author
Series
Angels in America volume pt. 1
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Presents the text of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning stage drama which follows the thread of AIDS through the lives of several gay men.
4) Perestroika
Author
Series
Angels in America volume pt. 2
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
A continuation of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Millennium Approaches," picking up the story after one of the characters, dying of AIDS, has been declared a prophet.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
7) Munich
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team's handler, Ephraim,...
10) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
12) The Fabelmans
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.
13) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
14) West Side Story
Pub. Date
2022
Description
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.