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(0)Jack Kelly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Adaptations of two famous stories by Irving: The first of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman, and the second about Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep and awakened twenty years later.
3) Dracula
Author
Series
Great illustrated classics volume G224-51
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An elephant hunter's chronicle of his safari into the interior of South Africa to search for a fabled diamond mine and to rescue the brother of the English gentleman who accompanies him across the deserts and mountains.
6) Gunpowder: alchemy, bombards, and pyrotechnics : the history of the explosive that changed the world
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
7) The edge of anarchy: the railroad barons, the Gilded Age, and the greatest labor uprising in America
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities. This epochal...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America's scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain's sea power. "Few know of the valor and courage of Benedict Arnold... With such a dramatic main character, the story of the Battle of Valcour is finally seen as one of the most exciting and important of the American Revolution." ?Tom Clavin author of Dodge City and co-author of...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war. We know Fort Knox, but what about Henry Knox, the burly Boston bookseller who took over the American...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. The foolish school teacher, Ichabod Crane, is besotted with the lovely Katrina Van Tassel. Surely there can be nothing to stand in the way of his designs on her fortune. Sadly for him, imagination is a dangerous thing in Sleepy Hollow, and Katrina is in the sights of another who claims to have bettered...
13) Maverick
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Maverick's the name. Poker's the game. And fun is the payoff in this 3-episode disc of the tv classic that lassoed an Emmy for best western series.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Wisecracking ladies' man Bret Maverick and his more serious brother Bart are two handsome bachelors on the loose in the wild west. They have more success at the game of poker than the game of love. Yet they keep trying their luck in one frontier outpost after another.
17) Commandos
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In 1942, Commandos are ordered to capture an oasis controlled by the Italians and hold it until the Allies land.
18) To hell and back
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history.
20) Forbidden planet
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forbidden planet: Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space cruiser crew, and Robby the Robot, to the green-skied world that's home to Dr. Morbius and his daughter, and to a mysterious terror.
Invisible boy: A ten-year-old boy and Robby the Robot team up to prevent a Super Computer from controlling the Earth from a satellite.
