Picture Books on DVD

The Terry James Video Library has popular children’s picture books on dvd.  Some examples are:

The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians

Melvin discovers that the public library is the place where he can find just about anything–including three librarians who help in his quest for knowledge.

The Three Snow Bears

Retells the story of Goldilocks, set in an Inuit village and featuring a family of polar bears.

White Owl, Barn Owl

A young girl and her grandfather build a nest box for barn owls and wait night after night for an owl to appear. At last they see the distinctive heart-shaped face of the white barn owl in the box window. The two continue to observe the owl and its mate as they hunt to feed the baby owls in their nest.

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Senior Novel Sets

The Terry James Video Library has four new titles, available in novel sets, for senior students.  Titles are:

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

In a story based on the Book of Genesis, Jacob’s only daughter, Dinah shares her unique perspectives on the origins of many of our modern religious practices and sexual politics, eager to impart the lessons in endurance and humanity she has learned from her father’s wives.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Houseini

Chronicles the lives of two Afghan women who struggle to survive, raise a family, and find happiness in war-torn Afghanistan.

The Book Thief  by markus Zusak

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel–a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishamel Beah

Ishmael Beah’s firsthand account of war and his plight as a child soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war.

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Literacy Collection

The literacy collection kits are tubs containing a variety of books on different topics.  Topics include high interest fiction and non-fiction, history, science, math, theatre, art, inventions, sports, graphic novels, media literacy, and more.

Literacy collection kits are booked through our Video Library.  Please see our website for media booking instructions.

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Novel Sets

Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown.

After a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he’s sleeping, he finds that being flat has its advantages.  Reading level: Primary.

 

Castle Diary: the Journal of Tobias Burgess, by Richard Platt.

As a page in his uncle’s castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.  Reading level: Junior.

 

We All Fall Down, by Eric Walters.

Today is September 10, 2001.  As an assignment, all the students in Will’s class will be going to their parents’ workplaces tomorrow.  Reading level: Intermediate.

 

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.

Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant’s son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan’s monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.  Reading level: Senior.

 

La Valise d’Hana, de Karen Levine

Un jour, à Tokyo, Fumiko Ishioka, la directrice du Centre de l’Holocauste, reçune valise du camp de concentration c’Auschqitz.  On peut u lire: Hana Brady, 16 mai 1931, et une not allemand Waisenkind signifiant orpheline.  Et que lui est-it arrivé?  Du Japon, Fumiko entreprend alors une enquête qui la conduit en Europe et au Canada.  Elle refuse d’abandonner ses recherches.  Reading level: Intermediate, Senior.

 

The Video Library has many novel sets available, in both French and English.  Please check our website for information on how to order.

 

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Audiobooks

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

This is just one of the many audiobook titles available.  Many of our titles match the novel sets available through the Video Library.

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