Chris Van Allsburg
2) Jumanji
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Left on their own for an evening, two boisterous brothers find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical space adventure board game.
4) Two bad ants
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety.
5) Swan Lake
Author
Series
Swan Lake trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
A young prince and his beloved Odette struggle to protect themselves and their infant daughter from the evil Von Rothbart in this adaptation of the classic ballet.
7) Zathura
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Danny twists the key of an old science fiction game. The game unleashes a localized meteor shower and wrenches Danny's house into orbit around a distant ringed planet. Besides Danny, his brother Walter and sister Lisa have to go along. Soon a defective robot, a rangy astronaut, and an alien spaceship enter the picture. The only way the kids can return their house to its proper space-time coordinates is to finish the game, but before they can finish,...
9) Zathura
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is magically hurtled through space because of the board game they are playing. Special features include: commentary, documentary, virtual board game, and more.
10) Jumanji
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers, until he is magically transported before the startled eyes of his friend, Sarah, into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan reunites with Sarah and together with Judy and Peter tries to outwit the game's powerful forces.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Billy longs to believe in Santa Claus, but he finds it quite difficult to do so. His family has a dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to Santa himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa. The train's conductor, along with the...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the gang spread across the country (and beyond) at college, Spencer is back to feeling out of place, even when he returns home over winter break. Desperate to escape his grandfather who is sharing his room, and to feel confident again, he attempts to fix the broken Jumanji video game, giving his friends no choice but to level up and return to rescue him.