Del Roy
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, Benedict Society members Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance follow clues on an adventure that threatens to separate them from their families, friends, and even one another.
5) Lady killer
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.
7) Kid Millions
Author
Language
English
Description
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Broadway director Bix Bixby is down on his luck. Reluctantly, he is persuaded to go to West Point Military Academy to help the students put on a musical show. Bix takes Eve, his on-again, off-again assistant, with him to the Academy. His ulterior motive is to recruit student star Tom Fletcher for Harry Eberhart's new production. Then, Bixby finds that he himself must live as a cadet.
Author
Language
English
Description
What do you do with a pitcher whose dominance has helped his team claim two world-championship banners? If the pitcher is burly lefty George Herman Ruth, you banish him from the mound, put a bat in his hand and watch him clout one record-setting home run after another. William Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder and Sultan of Swat in a movie that mixes fact, fiction and more fiction in a way that makes it a...
Author
Language
English
Description
A psychopath stalks Paris. Beautiful young women are being murdered. The city is terrorized. And an innocent psychology professor is framed for the crimes of the Phantom of the Rue Morgue. At the dawn of the20th century, a murdering zookeeper (Academy Award winner Karl Malden) uses a savage animal to exact lethal revenge from women who are guilty only of spurning his romantic advances. Now, when handsome professor Paul Dupin (Steve Forrest) tries...