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1) Granted
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile Measure
800L
Summary
Young fairy Ophelia gets her first wish granting assignment and discovers that, although the fate of the fairy world rests on her completing her task, the job of granting a human's wish is anything but easy.
2) Three wishes
Pub. Date
1995
Summary
A mother and her two young sons try to survive the best they can since her husband, the boys' father, is presumed to have died in the Korean War. One day they meet an injured stranger and his dog who change their lives.
3) Spider-Man
Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
After being bitten by a radioactive spider on a school field trip, Peter Parker finds himself gaining spider-like qualities. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his new skills to make money, but when the Green Goblin, another altered super-human, kills Peter's uncle, he swears to use his "spider-skills" to fight evil. Along the way he has to juggle a new job as a local reporter, and a budding romance with a beautiful former-classmate, MJ....
Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
Waterland: [D]isillusioned history professor, Tom Crick, ... in an age of cynicism and despair, inspires his students to embrace the past and discover the marvels and mysteries of life. Through a series of extraordinary stories, he takes them on an unforgettable journey into the past that changes their lives forever. Originally released as a motion picture in 1992.
Monster in a box: In this film version of Spalding Gray's latest stage hit, a case...
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give them, but there are prices for fame and fortune-- addictions...
Pub. Date
c2011
Summary
William Burroughs: the Beats aeminence grise, "literary outlaw, " culture hero to generations of poets, musicians, artists, and filmmakers who had their minds blown by his 1959 classic, banned-in-America "Naked Lunch." This film covers his life in a straightforward manner, but the portrait drawn is at odds with the character who wrote in outlandish graphic detail about then-forbidden sexuality in the 1950s and '60s. Heir to a family that lost its...